Tai Chi is safe and is suitable for everyone, male or female, young or old, unfit or super-fit, people with or without a disability.
Aims:
To gain an understanding of:
• The basic principles of Tai Chi
• The benefits and research evidence for Tai Chi for health and rehabilitation
• How to adapt and integrate Tai Chi Exercises (seated and standing) into clinical practice for rehabilitation of both individual or group treatments.
Benefits:
(See the research evidence here)
With regular practice research has shown that Tai Chi may help:
- Improve aerobic capacity
- Control and reduce pain
- Increase flexibility
- Strengthen tendons, bones and muscles
- Enhance the body’s immune system
- Reduce blood pressure
- Improve balance
- Reduce the risk and rate of falls
- Improve cardiovascular performance
- Improve sleep
- Improve quality of life
- Reduce depression and anxiety
- Improve physical and psychological function
It is excellent in the rehabilitation of many conditions such as –
- Neurological conditions – Stroke, Brain Injury, Parkinsons’s Disease, MS.
- Falls prevention in Elderly Care
- Cardiac Rehab – Chronic Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Disease
- Pulmonary Rehab – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma.
- Osteoporosis
- Rheumatology – Rheumatoid arthritis and Osteoarthritis
- Oncology and Palliative care
- Learning Disabilities
- Mental Illness – Depression
- Bariatrics – Weight control
The skills learned in Tai Chi can also be used in sports to improve performance
