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Tai Chi and Qigong show demonstrable effects on body composition, when compared to inactive control conditions.

Differences in location of referred pain areas may help clinicians to determine the most relevant active trigger points for Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) and Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) in spite of overlaps in pain areas.

Tai Chi alone or as additional therapy with routine physical therapy may decrease pain and improve function disability for patients with low back pain (LBP).

Practicing Tai Chi can significantly improve balance, cardiorespiratory fitness, cognition, mobility, proprioception, sleep, and strength; reduce the incidence of falls and nonfatal stroke; and decrease stroke risk factors. Health care providers can now recommend Tai Chi with high level of certainty for health promotion of older adults across a range of general health outcomes for improvement of overall well-being.

Tai Chi exerts significant positive effects on reducing the total Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire score at 12–16 weeks: and pain score, improving sleep quality, relieving fatigue, alleviating depression, and enhancing quality of life physically and psychologically. Tai Chi exerts significantly greater effects on patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) than standard care; therefore, we suggest that Tai Chi can be used as an alternative treatment.

The results of this study suggest the potential use of Tai chi exercise as an activity for increased quality of life in older adults.

Meditative movement (tai chi, yoga, and qigong) may have the potential to enhance lung function and physical activity in COPD patients.

Mind-body exercises, especially tai chi and dance mind-body exercise, are beneficial for improving global cognition, cognitive flexibility, working memory, verbal fluency, and learning in cognitively intact or impaired older adults.

Tai Chi could be a good physical training strategy for preventing falls and improving balance and functional mobility in people with Parkinson's disease (PD).

There are significant effects for Tai Chi/Qigong on global cognitive function, executive function, memory, visuospatial ability, and cognitive processing speed. Tai Chi and Qigong were effective interventions to improve cognition in patients with Parkinson's disease, stroke, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and traumatic brain injury.

Tai Chi lowers blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-C, and blood glucose and significantly increases the quality of life in adults with essential hypertension (EH). There is strong evidence for the short-term efficacy of Tai Chi exercises.