{"id":2252,"date":"2017-03-21T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2020-11-27T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T02:13:52","slug":"a-rheumatologists-perspective-of-the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/2017\/03\/21\/a-rheumatologists-perspective-of-the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u98a8\u6fd5\u75c5\u5b78\u5bb6\u5c0d\u592a\u6975\u62f3\u8207\u5065\u5eb7\u76ca\u8655\u7684\u89c0\u9ede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Vincent Mak, a rheumatologist with his own practice in Markham, Ontario; who is also a student of Sifu Bao Sen Liang, spoke to over 200 guests at the school spring dinner of 2017. Below is a summary of his speech about the health benefits of tai chi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2254 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_4572-1280-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_4572-1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_4572-1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_4572-1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_4572-1280-418x279.jpg 418w, https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_4572-1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First of all I would like to congratulate all of you here: you have made an excellent choice with your deciding to learn and practice Tai Chi.<\/p>\n<p>As a rheumatologist, I have seen many patients\u2019 conditions made worse due to lack of muscle strength, poor balance, which in turn lead to muscle strain, injuries and falls. Every day I tell my patients to exercise. And Tai Chi is an excellent choice for my patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTai Chi is effective in improving the following body functions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintaining muscle bulk and strength: naturally there is an age related decline in muscle mass. Tai Chi can help in reducing this.<\/li>\n<li>Improving and maintaining flexibility of body and limbs: by subjecting the body, arms and legs through movements during the different forms, one can help improve the range of movements and reduce stiffness.<\/li>\n<li>Improving body balance<\/li>\n<li>Improving lung function: through breathing exercises as part of tai chi practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Medical research has indeed confirmed evidence of beneficial effects of Tai Chi in many different illnesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patients with osteoarthritis of knees and hips can improve their sitting to standing time by practicing Tai Chi<\/li>\n<li>Patients with fibromyalgia (chronic pain) can have improved symptoms by practicing Tai Chi.<\/li>\n<li>Parkinson\u2019s patients have improved walking and reduced falls by practicing Tai Chi.<\/li>\n<li>Depression patients have improved symptoms with Tai Chi practice.<\/li>\n<li>Type 2 diabetes patients have improved glucose control by practicing Tai Chi.<\/li>\n<li>Chronic heart failure patients and chronic obstructive lung disease patients have less shortness of breath after practicing Tai Chi.<\/li>\n<li>Dementia patients have improvement in their function by practicing Tai Chi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, Tai Chi is indeed an excellent form of exercises with many proven health benefits. It is suitable for all age groups, and couples can practice together for many years. I would strongly recommend all of you to continue practicing it, and to encourage more people to learn it.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">Dr. Vincent Mak<\/h6>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Vincent Mak, a rheumatologist with his own practice in Markham, Ontario; who is also a student of Sifu Bao Sen Liang, spoke to over 200 guests at the school spring dinner of 2017 regarding the health benefits of Tai Chi.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}