Recent research from China (July 2024) found that Tai Chi has an obvious effect of in relieving chronic low back pain. Tai Chi alone and Tai Chi as supplementary therapy have good effects.
Chronic low back pain is a globally prevalent public health problem with risk of disability. Pain is the main symptom of low back pain, and severe low back pain can lead to a significant reduction in quality of life and employment rates.
In terms of physical exercises, Tai Chi combines multiple forms of training for muscle strength, stability, static and dynamic balance, and these core principles are very similar to core stability training. Tai chi exercise can make the practitioner’s muscle strength and bone density value increased significantly, promote its motor function, balance function improvement, so as to effectively improve the symptoms of low back pain.
Yang style Tai Chi is gentle and relaxed; is characterised by firmness behind the gentle appearance, with no jumping and no vertical movement and require quiet mind and soft body, relaxed and gentle, dynamic and static combination, coordinated and natural, and requires a certain degree of stability at the waist.
Throughout the research, the reports of adverse events only showed mild pain exacerbation and that the pain disappeared after the specific intervention. Tai Chi is a relatively safe rehabilitation exercise with slow and controlled movements.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306518
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