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| Tai Chi versus brisk walking in elderly women | | Author(s) | Joseph F Audette, Yoong Soo Jin, Renee Newcomer |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 35, no 4, July 2006 |
| Pages | pp 388-393 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Older women ; Exercise ; Mobility ; Performance ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 26 community-dwelling, sedentary healthy women aged 65+ (mean age 71.4) in the Boston area were recruited to this US study. 11 were randomly assigned to Tai Chi Chuan, 8 to a brisk walking group, and 8 acted as a sedentary comparison group. The exercise groups met for 1 hour, 3 days a week for 12 weeks. The study found that a short form of Tai Chi can have a significant effect on older women's aerobic fitness. Indeed, Tai Chi is at least as effective as brisk walking in enhancing aerobic fitness in older women. Moreover, Tai Chi has other benefits on fitness, including enhancing lower extremity strength and balance that brisk walking does not. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060825203 A |
| Classmark | BD: CEA: C4: 5H: 48: 7T |
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