updated American Diabetes Association exercise guidelines
statethatexerciseshouldbeperformedatleastthreetimesper
weeks [4]. Exercising regularly for a long period of time is critical
for promoting metabolism, improving insulin sensitivity and
decreasing blood sugar. In addition, exercise is also critical for
both stimulating blood circulation in the lower limbs and preventing
foot ulcers [5e8]. Due to a low rate of movement in
elderly patients and their general unwillingness to comply with a
regular exercise regimen, exercise therapy often proves challenging
to enforce. It is therefore critically important to formulate
methods to drastically improve the compliance with movement
in diabetic elderly patients. In this study, we expose elderly diabetic
patients to a combination of music media therapy with a
lower extremity sports programs. We reveal that this unique
approach insuccessful inboth promoting bloodcirculation in the
patients' lower extremities as well as increasing the extent of
elderly patient compliance to a consistent exercise regimen.