Tai Chi Chih acutely decreases sympathetic nervous system activity in older adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1177-1180

  Motivala, Sarosh J ^a   Sollers, John ^b   Thayer, Julian ^b   Irwin, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART PREEJECTION PERIOD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TAI CHI; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33845918219     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/61.11.1177     Document Type: Article

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