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Tai chi and balance

Researchers are studying how tai chi relates to moving balance and communication between brain areas in Parkinson's.

Testing a treatment or activity · Study reference: ChiCTR2300073918

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Start (reported date)
2023-08-01

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  • 2026-10-11 — recruiting

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Sex eligibility reported by registry: both

Inclusion criteria: 1. Meet the diagnostic criteria for PD; 2. The Hoehn-Yahr grading of Parkinson's disease was 1-3 grade; 3. Age 40-85 years; 4. At least one limb scored at least 2 or higher on the tremor, stiffness, postural stability, or bradykinesia component of the MDS-UPDRS III motor component of the Sinicization Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale; 5. Stable PD drug use; 6. The ability to stand independently and walk with or without an aid; 7. Not exercising regularly for the last three months (at least three times a week for at least 20 minutes at a time) ; 8. No contraindications to magnetic resonance imaging; 9. Subjects gave informed consent, volunteered, and were willing to be assigned to any intervention group. Exclusion criteria: 1. There was some degree of cognitive impairment (the mini-mental state scale score was less than 24) . 2. History of mental illness, severe aphasia, visual and hearing impairment, or severe organ failure, musculoskeletal system disease, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, and other contraindications to exercise therapy. 3. Is participating in other clinical trials that may affect the outcome of this study.
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Official study title

Explore the neural mechanism of Taiji to improve dynamic balance in patients with Parkinson's disease based on cerebellar-thalamic-cortical circuit

Original description

Intervention: Taiji training group:Select 24 styles of Tai Chi, including: Take-off, Mustang Mane, knee bend step, backward roll humerus, hold the sparrow tail, single whip, cloud hand, single whip, Jade Shuttle, closing. With more than 5 years of Taijiquan teaching experience of professional taijiquan coach guidance for training. The whole training process included 10-minute warm-up, 40-minute taijiquan training and 10-minute tidying up, twice a week for 24 weeks, with one hour of concentrated exercise each time;Health education group:Health education was provided once every four weeks for one hour for 24 weeks by Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors from the Department of Rehabilitation and neurology; Primary outcome: Gait analysis (the angles of the joints of the lower limbs at different time phases in the sagittal plane);Dynamic balance (Lyapunov index and center of gravity position);Coordination Analysis (movement coordination of two or more adjacent joints);Observation of brain morphology;Observation of brain function activity; Secondary outcome: Overall PD function level (MDS-UPDRS evaluation);Balance function (Berg balance scale);Coordination Function (integrated coordination scale);

Conditions reported: Parkinson

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Study type
Interventional
Interventions
Taiji training group:Select 24 styles of Tai Chi, including: Take-off, Mustang Mane, knee bend step, backward roll humerus, hold the sparrow tail, single whip, cloud hand, single whip, Jade Shuttle, closing. With more than 5 years of Taijiquan teaching experience of professional taijiquan coach guidance for training. The whole training process included 10-minute warm-up, 40-minute taijiquan training and 10-minute tidying up, twice a week for 24 weeks, with one hour of concentrated exercise each time;Health education group:Health education was provided once every four weeks for one hour for 24 weeks by Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors from the Department of Rehabilitation and neurology;
Phases
N/A
Sponsor
The Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Hospital
Start date reported by registry
2023-08-01 (reported)

Registry updated: Not reported · Status last verified by the registry submitter: Not reported

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Meijin Hou · +86 135 9906 4269 · meijinhou@fjtcm.edu.cn

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China

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