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Meditative Movement, Energetic, and Physical Analyses of Three Qigong Exercises: Unification of Eastern and Western Mechanistic Exercise Theory

open access: yesMedicines, 2017
: Qigong is the meditative movement and therapeutic exercise of Eastern medicine. A growing body of evidence is validating its health benefits leading to mechanistic questions of how it works.
Penelope Klein   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of a Qigong program on sleep quality among community-dwelling older adults with mild to moderate depression: A randomized controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Research, 2020
Purpose – The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a Qigong program on older adults in the Thai community suffering from mild to moderate depression.
Phenphop Phansuea   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adiponectin Potentially Contributes to the Antidepressive Effects of Baduanjin Qigong Exercise in Women with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-Like Illness

open access: yesCell Transplantation, 2017
Our recent study demonstrates that adiponectin signaling plays a significant role in mediating physical exercise-exerted effects on hippocampal neurogenesis and antidepression in mice.
Jessie S. M. Chan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

fMRI study of pain reaction in the brain under state of "Qigong" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this study, 4 male Qigong masters (aged 60 +/- 12) who had Qigong practicing experience for more than 30 years were tested. By using the technique of fMRI, the change of brain function under the state of Qigong was observed through the peripheral pain
Li, Yuan   +6 more
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The therapeutic efficacy of Qigong exercise on the main symptoms of fibromyalgia: A pilot randomized clinical trial

open access: yesIntegrative Medicine Research, 2020
Background: Some of the most debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia (FM) include widespread chronic pain, sleep disturbances, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
Caio V.M. Sarmento   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Le qigong et la tradition sectaire chinoise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
During the 1980s and 1990s, Qigong or "breathing arts" became the most wide-spread form of popular religiosity in Chinese cities. Thousands of charismatic Qigong masters appeared, promoting Qigong methods through transmission networks covering the whole ...
Palmer, DA
core   +1 more source

The influence of health qigong on the subjectively expressed psychophysical state of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, rheum, osteoporosis, osteopenia

open access: yesChinese Medicine and Culture, 2018
This study assesses the impact of exercise on the health of the Qigong (Jibengong, Health Qigong Ba Duan Jin and Health Qigong Yi Jin Jing) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism, osteoporosis, osteopenia.
Ilinka Acimovic
doaj   +1 more source

Research on the Belt and Road Initiative and the International Communication of Health Qigong

open access: yesJournal of Taiji Science, 2022
Under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative, this paper studies the international communication of Health Qigong by a combination of historical materialist dialectics and logic analysis.
Tao Kang康涛   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Talking about Hot Flashes (潮热)

open access: yesChinese Medicine and Culture, 2021
Women worldwide are dealing with hot flashes (潮热), a perimenopausal feature that is often tiring, embarrassing, and energetically draining. Conventionally, Chinese medicine defines hot flashes as Kidney-yin deficiency and its clinical manifestations ...
Anna Bogachko Holmblad
doaj   +1 more source

Acute psychological responses to qigong exercise of varying durations

open access: yes, 2008
Qigong exercise has been shown to induce acute psychological changes of a positive nature; but whether longer durations have greater effects than shorter ones is not known.
Hassmén, Peter,   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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