Deans' stroke musings: Effects of health qigong exercise on upper extremity muscle activity, balance function, and quality of life in stroke patients

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Effects of health qigong exercise on upper extremity muscle activity, balance function, and quality of life in stroke patients

Didn't your doctor put a protocol into your rehab on this years ago?

Qigong (3 posts to October 2020)

Effects of health qigong exercise on upper extremity muscle activity, balance function, and quality of life in stroke patients

Huixin Yang¹

Baolong Li²

Lin Feng²

Zhonglou Zhang¹^*

Xiaolei Liu³^*

¹Institute of Nation Traditional Sport, Harbin Sport University, Harbin, China
²The Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China
³Chinese Traditional Regimen Exercise Intervention Research Center, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China

Introduction: This study explored the effects of Qigong exercises on upper extremity muscle activity, balance function, and quality of life in stroke patients.

Methods: A total of 30 stroke patients were randomly allocated to either control group or Qigong group. In the Qigong group, participants completed an intervention of Qigong Baduanjin over 8 weeks. Data on the electromyographic activities of the biceps brachii muscle, triceps brachii muscle, and muscle coordination were obtained using surface electromyography and the co-contraction ratio (CCR). Data on balance were obtained using the PK254P balance function detection system. Quality of life was measured using the brief version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life scale.

Results: The results for the Qigong group showed a significant difference in CCR of the triceps brachii muscle (p < 0.01). Concerning balance (assessed using the open-eye test), there was a significant decrease (p < 0.05) in Y-axis trajectory deviations and the Y-axis speed in the Qigong group. In the closed-eye test, the peripheral area of the Qigong group was significantly lower than that of the control group (p < 0.05). Significant differences were also observed in physical health (p < 0.05), psychological health (p < 0.01), environment (p < 0.01), and the total scores for quality of life (p < 0.01) in the Qigong group.

Discussion: We conclude that Qigong exercises improve the quality of life in stroke patients and have positive effects on the coordination of limb extremities and balance function.v