CIA: Tai Chi may benefit people with dementia

December 6, 2019 / BIOON / -- recently, a report was published in the international journal clinical interactions in aging In the previous study report, scientists from the University of Bournemouth in the UK found that Taiji can bring positive health benefits to patients with Alzheimer's disease; in the article, researchers wanted to observe whether Taiji can benefit dementia patients, especially whether Taiji can prevent their falls and improve their quality of life Photo source: Dr Samuel Nyman, researcher of cc0 public domain, said that we are very interested in studying whether Tai Chi can improve the body balance of dementia patients and effectively prevent their falls, which is very important, because the risk of falls in dementia patients is twice that of normal people, and the risk of falls and injuries is twice that of normal people In this paper, the researchers selected a group of people who can carry out normal activities as the control group, and compared it with the experimental group who has carried out Taiji activities for six months; the results show that those who can follow the Taiji program can maintain a good quality of life, while the control group has a decline in the quality of life in the same period The researchers said that those who take Taiji do like these courses very much, and they will meet with people who have dementia and need family care; Taiji is a very safe and gentle way of exercise, and many family nurses are very willing to support their relatives to keep healthy through classroom and family contact; although the researchers found that the test scores of the crowd were not However, the tendency of Taiji to prevent falls is obvious This study was conducted in Dorset, Southampton and Portsmouth in the south of England; later researchers hope to conduct large-scale in-depth research to find more evidence to prove that Taiji can effectively prevent the risk of falls, especially for dementia patients, they will also study and understand that Taiji can effectively prevent falls and improve the quality of life of dementia patients Molecular mechanism Original source: Nyman Sr, Ingram W, Sanders J, et al Randomised controlled trial of the effect of Tai Chi on postal balance of people with dementia, clinical interventions in aging (2019) Doi: 10.2147/cia.s228931