Tai Chi Research » Programs http://www.taichiresearch.com The Source for Tai Chi Research, Tai Chi Articles and Tai Chi Videos Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:06:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tai Chi for Falls Prevention Program Successfully Implemented http://www.taichiresearch.com/810/tai-chi-for-falls-prevention-program-successfully-implemented/ http://www.taichiresearch.com/810/tai-chi-for-falls-prevention-program-successfully-implemented/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:14:33 +0000 David Bendall http://www.taichiresearch.com/?p=810 Researchers at the Oregon Research Institute demonstrated that a tai chi based falls-prevention program developed from a clinical trial could be replicated. The program was evaluated at 6 community centers. All 6 centers successfully implemented the program with an 87% reach into the target population. The participants showed significant improvements in health-related outcome measures.

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]]> http://www.taichiresearch.com/810/tai-chi-for-falls-prevention-program-successfully-implemented/feed/ 0 The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends tai chi as a key component of community-based fall prevention programs. http://www.taichiresearch.com/564/how-to-develop-a-community-based-fall-prevention-program/ http://www.taichiresearch.com/564/how-to-develop-a-community-based-fall-prevention-program/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:32:23 +0000 David Bendall http://www.taichiresearch.com/?p=564 In a recent publication, Preventing Falls: How to Develop Community-based Fall Prevention Programs for Older Adults, the CDC recommends tai chi as a key component of a falls prevention program.  According to the CDC the only programs that have been shown to be affective in reducing falls among older adults are single intervention programs involving exercise, such as tai chi, or multiple intervention programs involving exercise together with other interventions such as vision assessment and education.

According to the document appropriate types of exercise which effectively reduce falls among older adults include:

  • Tai Chi
  • Strengthening exercises combined with balance training
  • Balance training alone

The full document is available as a pdf file.

Preventing Falls: How to Develop Community-based Fall Prevention Programs for Older Adults PDF

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