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Tai chi may be beneficial for stroke survivors with respect to gait ability in the short term, but further large, long-term randomized controlled trials with standard evaluation indicators are needed to confirm this conclusion.

Tai Chi performed with medication resulted in promising gains in mobility and balance, and it was safe and popular among Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients at an early stage of the disease. This provides a new evidence for PD management.

Meditative Movement Therapies (Qigong, Tai Chi and Yoga) are safe. Yoga had short-term beneficial effects on some key domains of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS).

Twelve-week Tai Chi is beneficial for improving arthritic symptoms and physical function in patients with osteoarthritis and should be included in rehabilitation programs.

Falls and their associated healthcare costs can be reduced by better integrating research on exercise intervention into clinical practice and community programs.

This article provides an overview of an 8-form Tai Chi.

This study demonstrates that Rating of Perceived Exertion may be a useful tool to prescribe and control training intensity during the metabolic conditioning sessions of functional fitness as a result of its large correlation with lactate and the number of repetitions completed. These findings are of importance in a practical setting, suggesting that coaches could use this method to prescribe the training intensity in a practical and inexpensive way. This allows coaches and practitioners to better manipulate the training loads, and therefore obtain better results, while avoiding negative outcomes, such as excessive fatigue and non-functional overreaching.

Tai Chi can significantly reduce systolic and diastolic pressure than inactivity. However, Tai Chi does not show advantages in reducing blood pressure compared to other aerobic exercises.

While mindfulness meditation improves pain and depression symptoms and quality of life, additional well-designed, rigorous, and large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCT) are needed to decisively provide estimates of the efficacy of mindfulness meditation for chronic pain.

The meta-analysis showed that Tai Chi had a mild effect on global cognitive function. Yoga and aromatherapy may also be beneficial for depression, and these three mind–body therapies (MBTs) improved quality of life. The current review suggested that MBTs may act as potential non-pharmaceutical approaches to improve certain health outcomes among older populations with dementia.

The practice frequency could predict the effects of tai chi on static steady-state balance, and the 24-form simplified Yang style tai chi (45–60 min/session, more than four sessions per week and at least 8 weeks) was the most optimal. Tai chi is effective at improving the balance ability of adults over 60 years of age. A medium duration and high frequency of 24-form tai chi may be the optimal program for improving balance, but this evidence should be recommended with caution due to limitations of the methodology and small sample sizes.

Tai Chi is effective for preventing falls in older adults. The preventive effect is likely to increase with exercise frequency and Yang style Tai Chi seems to be more effective than Sun style Tai Chi.