Effects of Tai Chi Exercise on Balance, Functional Mobility, and Fear of Falling among Older Women

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 235-242

  Taggart, Helen M ^a  

^a Armstrong State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT MOBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAI CHI; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FEAR; FITNESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; EXERCISE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; TAI JI; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036835887     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apnr.2002.35975     Document Type: Article

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