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Article: Tai chi decreases sympathetic nervous activity.(News from The Journal of Chinese Medicine)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
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- The Journal of Chinese Medicine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Performance of tai chi leads to a decrease in activity of the sympathetic nervous system, to levels that are not achieved by performing comparable physical activity alone. Participants had completed the above 25-week randomised trial of Tai Chi Chih (TCC), vs health education (HE). TCC practitioners performed TCC for 20 minutes, while HE participants passively rested for the same time. Investigators measured various cardiovascular parameters before and after the task. A subsample of participants returned for a second evaluation and performed videotape-guided ...
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