Department of Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, 461-24 Jeonmin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-811, South Korea.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2008 Dec;5(4):457-62. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nem048. Epub 2007 Jul 13.
We investigated the effects of tai chi on disease activity, flexibility and depression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). We allocated 40 patients to either a tai chi treatment group or a no-treatment control group. The tai chi group performed 60 min of tai chi twice weekly for eight consecutive weeks and 8 weeks of home-based tai chi, after which the group showed significant improvement in disease activity and flexibility compared to the control group. All outcome measures were significantly lower in the tai chi group than they were during pre-treatment, while they did not change in the control group. These findings suggest that tai chi can improve disease activity and flexibility for patients with AS. Tai chi is an easily accessible therapy for patients and, as such, may be an effective intervention for AS. However, we cannot completely discount the possibility that the placebo effect was responsible for the improvement.
我们研究了太极拳对强直性脊柱炎（AS）患者疾病活动度、灵活性和抑郁的影响。我们将 40 名患者分配到太极拳治疗组或无治疗对照组。太极拳组每周进行 2 次、每次 60 分钟的太极拳锻炼，连续 8 周，然后进行 8 周的家庭太极拳锻炼。与对照组相比，太极拳组的疾病活动度和灵活性明显改善。太极拳组的所有结局指标均显著低于治疗前，而对照组则没有变化。这些发现表明，太极拳可以改善 AS 患者的疾病活动度和灵活性。太极拳是一种易于为患者接受的治疗方法，因此可能是治疗 AS 的有效方法。然而，我们不能完全排除改善是安慰剂效应的可能性。
