Research Opportunity with Compensation for Tai Chi Instructors
A prominent research institution is seeking several Tai Chi instructors to join their team for a 3-month project. The team will deliver remote Tai Chi sessions for 60 minutes a…
Holistic Frailty Prevention: The Promise of Tai Chi and Yoga
Aging is characterized by fundamental cellular and molecular hallmarks that result in physiologic decline of most body systems. This may culminate in frailty, a state of decreased reserve. Because frailty…
Remotely Delivered Spring Forest Qigong Reduced Neuropathic Pain in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury
Approximately 69% of 299,000 Americans with spinal cord injury (SCI) suffer debilitating chronic neuropathic pain, which is intractable to treatment. A study by the University of Minnesota intended to determine…
Effects of Qigong Training on Sedentary Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Women
Scientists from Thailand and Austria worked together in a recent study to evaluate the effects of an 8-week Qigong exercise training on exercise performance and oxidative stress responses in sedentary…
A Historical Summit for Tai Chi and Qigong
On September 18-19, 2023, the Science of Tai Chi & Qigong as Whole-Person Health Conference, the first of its kind in the world, was held in Boston by Osher Center…
Prediction of Knee Joint Pain in Tai Chi Practitioners
A new Chinese study published by BMJ Open in August 2023 build a supervised machine learning model that can accurately predict whether Tai Chi practitioners may experience knee pain after…
How African Americans Engaging in Qigong Exercise in a Community Setting
Although an increasing number of African Americans 50 years of age and older practice Qigong, a mind-body exercise, to manage their health conditions, little is known about their perceptions and…
Acceptability and Feasibility of a Tai Chi/Qigong Intervention for Older People Living With HIV
Tai chi/qigong (TCQ) is a low impact, meditative movement with breathwork that may benefit people with HIV over 50 years old. Florida International University, New College of Florida and Arizona…
Tai Chi/Qigong in Society for Integrative Oncology Guidelines for Mental Health in Cancer Patients
To provide evidence-based recommendations to health care providers on integrative approaches to managing anxiety and depression symptoms in adults living with cancer, the Society for Integrative Oncology and ASCO convened…