Tai Chi Chuan
Increased first and second pulse harmonics in Tai Chi Chuan practitioners
... [21]. Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) is a trad- itional oriental conditioning exercise or calisthenics that can defer the age-related decline in aerobic capacity ...
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Gait, posture and transfer assessment among elderly practitioners and non practitioners of Tai Chi Chuan
... Thai Chi group presented quantitative advan- tages, especially when the experimental conditions in- volved vision and a stable ...These Tai Chi Chuan practitioners maintained increased ...
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The effect of Tai Chi Chuan in reducing falls among elderly people: design of a randomized clinical trial in the Netherlands [ISRCTN98840266]
... Background: Falls are a significant public health problem. Thirty to fifty percent of the elderly of 65 years and older fall each year. Falls are the most common type of accident in this age group and can result in ...
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Tai Chi Chuan in postsurgical non small cell lung cancer patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... 6MWD: Six-minute walk distance; ACSM: American College of Sports Medicine; CDS: Cancer Dyspnea Scale; CI: Confidence interval; CRA: Clinical Research Associate; CRF: Case report form; CRO: Clinical Research Organization; ...
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Effects of resistance training, tai chi chuan and mat pilates on multiple health variables in postmenopausal women
... Objective: To compare the effect of two concurrent training methods on the muscle strength, functional autonomy, cardiorespiratory capacity and quality of life (QoL) of postmenopausal women. Material and methods: ...
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A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based Tai Chi Chuan for subthreshold depression adolescents
... date, none of the researchers combined TCC with mindful- ness skills effectively to investigate their effects on StD population. Furthermore, for StD adolescents, the evidence is unclear as to whether mindfulness-based ...
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BIOMARKERS USED FOR ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF TAI CHI CHUAN IN BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS
... Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) is a traditional Chinese exercise, its movement is slow in order to achieve a state of relaxation and balance of both body and ...
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Effects of tai chi chuan on anxiety and sleep quality in young adults: lessons from a randomized controlled feasibility study
... To determine study feasibility, the proportion of par- ticipants who were retained during the intervention (ie, completing the baseline and one other assessment) and after the interven[r] ...
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A study investigating the effects of Tai Chi Chuan in individuals with traumatic brain injury : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
... Social Interaction, physical and mental health The Tai Chi group did not however report significant improvements in their social interaction, physical and mental health when compared to [r] ...
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Effect of Tai Chi on mononuclear cell functions in patients with non small cell lung cancer
... [3]. Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) is very popular as a traditional exercise in ...China. Tai Chi practitioners seek their body’s constant movement during Tai Chi exercise and must ...
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Effects of Tai Chi exercises on self-efficacy and psychological health
... The literature research was conducted as a systematic search from January 1990 to June 2006 using electronic databases including: Ebsco Host, Wiley Interscience, Taylor & Francis, Blackwell Publishing, PubMed, and ...
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Tai Chi for osteopenic women: design and rationale of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
... 9-month Tai Chi program plus standard care or to standard care ...to Tai Chi to choose from a pre- screened list of community-based Tai Chi ...
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The effectiveness of Tai Chi for patients with Parkinson’s disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... forty-two patients with PD will be randomly assigned to a Tai Chi group (n = 71) or routine exercise group (n = 71). Subjects will participate in supervised study programs 3 times per week for 2 months and ...
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Investigating the circulatory respiratory response of elderly people during Tai Chi Yuttari exercise
... When developing exercises that take into account re- gional and cultural characteristics, it is necessary to think about their scope of application by fully grasping their effects on the body. Some exercises have been ...
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Tai Chi in Parkinson’s Disease: A Preliminary Randomized, Controlled, and Rater Blinded Study
... completing the 16 week trial. The same examiner was used for each subject at both the baseline and final evalu- ations and these raters were blinded to treatment assignment (patients and family members were forbidden ...
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Hypoglycemic and antioxidant effect of Tai chi exercise training in older adults with metabolic syndrome
... in Tai Chi training; however, they expressed interest in partici- pating in the biochemical tests that were carried out at the beginning and after 6 months and considered the possibility of participating in ...
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Tai chi for treating osteopenia and primary osteoporosis: a meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis
... There- fore, we conducted an updated meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to investigate the efficacy of TC treatment for regulating the bone mass, especially for the [r] ...
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Effects of Tai Chi exercises on work engagement and mental and physical health : a pilot study
... were used in this experiment. Before the first session participants scored (ranging from 0 (never) – 6 (everyday)) items like ‘I am under stress at work’, ‘I can concentrate very well’ ,‘I have back pain’ and ‘I feel ...
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Effects of Tai Chi Exercise on depression in older adults: A randomized controlled trial
... Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Chi square test was applied for comparing ordinal variables. Independent and paired t-tests used for comparing nominal vari- ables. The ...
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Effects of individualized Tai-Chi on balance and lower-limb strength in older adults
... practice Tai-Chi were assigned to the control group (n = 24), while those joined the Tai-Chi group were free to choose between joining either iTC (n = 25) or tTC (n = 21) group to enhance ...
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