Tai Chi Chuan and health in elderly
Abstract
The purpose of this article was to summarize the results showed in the literature that relates Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) and health, aiming at giving some direction for future research and interventions. Thus, the bibliographical base MedLine was consulted. The key words that were used were “Tai Chi Chuan” as well as filtered with the combination “Tai Chi Chuan + Health”. This revision started with a number of 369 articles on Tai Chi Chuan. After the first selection, which took into consideration the results of the combination “Tai Chi Chuan + Health”, 183 remained, which then were manually selected taking into account their relevance for this study, in relation to the questions considered for the analysis (being written in English; dealing with the subject of Tai Chi Chuan and health; studies that approached psychic or mental illnesses had not been considered; those ought to have been done with citizens above 55 years old; they also ought to have clearly determined their studied age-group; they should have been published between 2004 and 2009). At the end of this study, seven papers remained d those were analyzed. A total of 780 subjects had been evaluated in the literature review considering that among these 252 were men and 475 were women, 191 subjects had not had the sex discriminated in the research. The Tai Chi Chuan, according to the analyzed data, is a potentially efficient physical activity for the maintenance and improvement of the physical functions, such as the body balance and proprioception and neuromuscular reaction in elderly people, therefore, being one efficient form of falling prevention in this public.
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