Abstract
Robert W McGee* Author Affiliations Department of Graduate and Professional Studies in Business, Fayetteville State University, USA Received: March 24, 2021 | Published: March 31, 2021 Corresponding author: Robert W McGee, Department of Graduate and Professional Studies in Business, Fayetteville State University, USA DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.34.005621
Highlights
Qigong exercises have been practiced for thousands of years to maintain health [1,2]
This paper reports on or summarizes dozens of studies where tai chi and/or qigong have been used to reduce or alleviate the adverse side-effects that result from surgery, chemotherapy, and other treatments for cancer
Et al [49] studied bone mineral density (BMD), balance performance, balance self-efficacy and falls in breast cancer survivors. Their sample consisted of 40 breast cancer survivors who had more than three months of qigong practice, 17 breast cancer survivors who had not done any qigong exercises, and 36 healthy individuals in the control group
Summary
Qigong exercises have been practiced for thousands of years to maintain health [1,2]. Qigong is a subset of tai chi, which is a Chinese martial art as well as a form of exercise. Medical practitioners have used a variety of qigong and tai chi exercises to treat their patients for various ailments. The most popular set of exercises recommended by practitioners is probably baduanjin [30,31,32,33], which consists of eight exercises that stimulate all the major meridians. It is one of the qigong sets that is recommended by the Chinese Health Qigong Association [31]. The present paper summarizes the results of some of those studies
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