Teaching Tai Chi for Chronic Pain

I have been asked by a number of Energy Arts instructors who teach Tai Chi and Chi Gung (‘Qigong’) about the work we do with chronic pain patients in the National Health Service, especially relating to the uses of Tai Chi for Chronic pain. Here is a short overview…

How teaching tai chi for chronic pain started

It started in 1997, when the inimitable Brian Cookman marched up to the local hospital in Canterbury and declared, to anyone who would listen, that he wanted to teach Tai Chi there. He was lucky enough to find a receptive ear in Val Conway, who was the head of the Pain Clinic at the time.

So we began to teach Tai Chi to chronic pain patients…