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Joint Angles and Joint Moments of the Lower Limbs in Four Typical Tai Chi Movements: Consideration for Management of Knee Osteoarthritis
- Source :
- Research in Sports Medicine. 29:586-592
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- This study examined the biomechanics of the lower limbs during four typical Tai Chi (TC) movements: wave hand in cloud, leaning fly side, repulse monkey, and brush knee and twist step, in order to provide biomechanical evidence-based recommendations for patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) practicing TC. Joint angles and joint moments of the hip, knee, and ankle in frontal and sagittal plane as well as ground reaction forces were examined while performing TC and regular walking in an experienced 38 years old TC master. The results showed that relative to walking, the four TC movements are characterized by a wide motion range of lower limbs, slow increase in joint loading, and strong muscle activity during performance. Therefore, these TC movements could be suitable for patients with knee OA to practice for improving the muscle strength of their lower limbs and functional ability.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Walking
Kinematics
Osteoarthritis
Weight-Bearing
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Functional ability
Range of Motion, Articular
Ground reaction force
business.industry
Biomechanics
Osteoarthritis, Knee
medicine.disease
Sagittal plane
Biomechanical Phenomena
Kinetics
medicine.anatomical_structure
Lower Extremity
Tai Ji
Ankle
business
Range of motion
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15438635 and 15438627
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research in Sports Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c38dbd4ffeb635f3b93b1c73683be43a