Tai Chi Chuan in medicine and health promotion

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lan, Ching ^a   Chen, Ssu Yuan ^a   Lai, Jin Shin ^a   Wong, Alice May Kuen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; BREAST CANCER; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; COST; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENERGY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FALLING; FIBROMYALGIA; FLOW; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KINEMATICS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RESTING HEART RATE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TAI CHI; TENSION HEADACHE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84885355627     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/502131     Document Type: Article

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