Tai Chi exercise in medicine and health promotion

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lan, Ching ^a   Wolf, Steven L ^b   Tsang, William W N ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHINESE MEDICINE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; GENETICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAI CHI;

EID: 84890101102     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/298768     Document Type: Editorial

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