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太極拳;心肺功能;攝氧量;老年人;運動訓練;Tai Chi Chuan;cardiorespiratory function;oxygen uptake;elderly;exercise training
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The Effect Of Tai Chi Chuan For Developing And Maintaining Cardiorespiratory Function In Middle-Aged And Elderly Individuals, Ching Lan, Jin-Shin Lai, May-Kuen Wong
The Effect Of Tai Chi Chuan For Developing And Maintaining Cardiorespiratory Function In Middle-Aged And Elderly Individuals, Ching Lan, Jin-Shin Lai, May-Kuen Wong
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
A series of studies was designed to investigate the effect of Tai Chi Chuan for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory function in elderly individuals.In the cross-sectional studies, cardiorespiratory function of 90 middle-aged (range 50-64 yrs) and 76 elderly (range 65-80 yrs) subjects were tested by cycle ergometry. The TCC group practiced TCC with a mean duration of 9.1±4.3 yrs. The control group consisted of 84 sedentary subjects. The VO2max of the TCC group was 15.6-26.8% higher than that of the control group. The result implied that TCC was beneficial for the cardiorespiratory function in the middle-aged and elderly individuals. In the …