Long term tai chi practitioners show improved finger pointing accuracy.
March 13, 2010 by David Bendall · Leave a Comment
Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University compared the effects of age and tai chi on eye-hand coordination. The study consisted of three groups, a younger control group consisting of 30 university students with an average age of 24, a elderly control group consisting of 30 healthy non-tai chi practicing adults with an average age of 72 and an elderly tai chi group consisting of 31 healthy tai chi practicing adults with an average age of 70 and 7 years of tai chi practice. The study compared reaction time and accuracy in a test in which subjects point towards a dot on a display unit. The younger subjects achieved significantly faster reaction and movement times and better accuracy than the elderly controls in all finger-pointing tasks. The elderly tai chi group had significantly better accuracy than the elderly controls in pointing towards both stationary and moving targets. The accuracy in the tai chi group was similar to the accuracy in the younger control group.
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