Tai Chi exercise versus rehabilitation for the elderly with cerebral vascular disorder: A single-blinded randomized controlled trial

Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-166

  Wang, Wenchao ^a   Sawada, Masayuki ^a   Noriyama, Yoshinobu ^a   Arita, Keisuke ^a   Ota, Toyosaku ^a   Sadamatsu, Miyuki ^a   Kiyotou, Reiko ^b   Hirai, Motoharu ^b   Kishimoto, Toshifumi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Akitsu Kounoike Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elder; Event related potentials; General Health Questionnaire; P300; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; Tai Chi

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TAI CHI;

AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REACTION TIME; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TAI JI; WALKING;

EID: 77957131923     PISSN: 13463500     EISSN: 14798301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2010.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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