"Traditional Chinese balance and mobility exercise training does not appear to reduce the risk of falls among home-living elderly at high risk of falling, according to a study from the Netherlands.Oops.
'It is not enough to practice Tai Chi for a short period to prevent falls in the future,' Inge H. J. Logghe, of Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, told Reuters Health...
Moreover, Logghe reported 'a trend of higher fall risk in the elderly who participated in the Tai Chi training,' when she and colleagues specifically assessed falls among the 61 percent of participants who had fallen at least once during the year prior to study enrollment."
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Tai Chi may not reduce fall risk in elderly
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