{"id":82712,"date":"2018-09-15T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/tai-chi-an-ancient-art-may-work-best-to-prevent-falls-in-old-age"},"modified":"2018-09-15T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:02:23","slug":"tai-chi-an-ancient-art-may-work-best-to-prevent-falls-in-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/tai-chi-an-ancient-art-may-work-best-to-prevent-falls-in-old-age","title":{"rendered":"Tai chi: an ancient art may work best to prevent falls in old age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tai-chi-an-ancient-art-may-work-best-to-prevent-falls-in-old-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(HealthDay)\u2014The ancient practice of tai chi may beat strength training and aerobics for preventing falls among seniors, a new trial shows.<\/p>\n<p>A modified senior-centered tai chi program reduced falls nearly a third better in a head-to-head comparison with an exercise regimen that combined aerobics, strength training and balance drills, the researchers reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tai chi program better addressed the deficits that were contributing to fall risk,\u201d said senior researcher Kerri Winters-Stone, a professor with the Oregon Health &amp; Science University School of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-09-tai-chi-ancient-art-falls.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;09-tai-chi-ancient-art-falls.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(HealthDay)\u2014The ancient practice of tai chi may beat strength training and aerobics for preventing falls among seniors, a new trial shows. A modified senior-centered tai chi program reduced falls nearly a third better in a head-to-head comparison with an exercise regimen that combined aerobics, strength training and balance drills, the researchers reported. \u201cThis tai chi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}