Tai Chi/Qi Gong in Mental Health Treatment and Prevention: A review of Meta-Analytic Evidence and an Analysis of Evidence Congruence with Training Practices [PDF]
, 2017 In a review of the literature, Abbot and Lavretsky (2013) concluded that Tai Chi and Qi Gong, two complementary and alternative therapies, improved mental and behavioral health-related outcomes.
Price, Colin A
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Tai Chi for Osteopenic Women: Design and Rationale of a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Post-menopausal osteopenic women are at increased risk for skeletal fractures. Current osteopenia treatment guidelines include exercise, however, optimal exercise regimens for attenuating bone mineral density (BMD) loss, or for addressing ...
Bonato, Paolo +10 more
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THE KINEMATICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES DURING TAl CHI CHUAN EXERCISE [PDF]
, 2008 There is broad consensus that Tai Chi Chuan exercise can improve the balance control and muscle strength of the lower extremities. However, the mechanism used to promote that balance control and muscle strength is still unclear. The purpose of this study
Hong, Youlian, Li, Jingxian, Mao, Dewei
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Journal of Diabetes Research, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.The rising prevalence of diabetes has been closely linked to increased mortality and morbidity, particularly as its complications become more widespread. Among the most challenging of these complications are cognitive impairments and diabetic neuropathies, which are neurodegenerative conditions that significantly diminish the quality of life in the ...
Sepideh Poshtdar +3 more
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The effect of T'ai Chi exercise on immunity and infections: A systematic review of controlled trials [PDF]
, 2013 published_or_final_versio
Chan, CLW +6 more
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Resistance through Transformation? The Meanings of Gender Reversals in a Taiwanese Buddhist Monastery [PDF]
, 2011 This chapter demonstrates that Taiwanese Buddhist nuns resist the limitations of traditional Han gender ideologies by drawing on opportunities offered within those traditional gender constructions—opportunities that allow them to define themselves in ...
Crane, Hillary
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Tai-chi for residential patients with schizophrenia on movement coordination, negative symptoms, and functioning: a pilot randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2012 Objective. Patients with schizophrenia residing at institutions often suffer from negative symptoms, motor, and functional impairments more severe than their noninstitutionalized counterparts.
Au Yeung, FSW +6 more
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Focal Spot, Winter 2008/2009 [PDF]
, 2009 https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/focal_spot_archives/1110/thumbnail ...
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LOWER LIMB BALANCE CHARACTERISTICS DURING TAI CHI CHUAN
Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte, 2023 ABSTRACT Introduction: Tai chi chuan training claims to not only promote the circulation of internal energy in the body to achieve a preventive and healing effect of diseases, but also to improve static and dynamic body balance. While the former claims are not validable, the question about the effectiveness of improving balance remains valid ...
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康复学报Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a chronic degenerative joint disease that occurs mostly in the elderly over the age of 60. Exercise therapy, represented by Tai Chi Chuan, has been proven to have good effective in relieving chronic pain caused by KOA.
LIU Longcheng +7 more
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