Effect of Tai Chi on Improving Physical Performance and Preventing Falling in Community-Dwelling Old Women

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  • 太極拳運動による地域高齢者の身体機能向上及び転倒予防に関する研究―地域女性高齢者を対象として―
  • タイキョクケン ウンドウ ニ ヨル チイキ コウレイシャ ノ シンタイ キノウ コウジョウ オヨビ テントウ ヨボウ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ チイキ ジョセイ コウレイシャ オ タイショウ ト シテ
  • ─地域女性高齢者を対象として─

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Abstract

This study evaluated the efficacy of a 5-month Tai Chi intervention for improving physical fitness and preventing falling in community-dwelling elderly women. Sixty elderly women were randomly assigned to either Tai Chi intervention (n=30, average age: 72.2 (3.5 years) or control (n=30, average age: 71.6 (4.5 years) groups. Physical fitness measures and questionnaires (including subjects' history of falling, compliance with daily practice of Tai Chi, impression of Tai Chi, and wish to continue with Tai Chi) were conducted before and after the intervention. In the Tai Chi group, the physical fitness measures, including one-leg standing time, grip strength, Functional Reach (FR), walking speed, standing trunk flexion, and swing one-leg while standing on the other leg, improved significantly by the end of the 5-month intervention. In the control group, none of the measures showed significant differences. Significantly fewer people fell during the intervention and the subsequent 6-month period compared with the 1-year period before the intervention.

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  • Rigakuryoho Kagaku

    Rigakuryoho Kagaku 21 (3), 275-279, 2006

    The Society of Physical Therapy Science

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