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Date

Apr 24 2025

Time

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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Elements of Tai Chi: Putting Tai Chi into Practice

Hosted by Geriatric SIG
Continuing Competency Points awarded

Location: Hospital for Special Care
2150 Corbin Ave
New Britain, CT 06053

Tai Chi is a beautiful moving meditation and exercise usually taught in community settings but often viewed as complicated and difficult to learn. This lab-based course is designed to teach participants how to begin applying Tai Chi in patient care across settings. Using our expertise in motor learning and motor control, physical therapists are well prepared to learn and teach basic Tai Chi postures, stances and stepping sequences that can enhance patient wellbeing while improving posture, balance, and motor performance. Clinical application of Tai Chi in healthcare has the potential to reduce stress and anxiety to give patients as well as the therapist powerful tools to incorporate relaxation and mindful movement into traditional exercise, balance, and gait training. Attendees will learn applicable movement and exercise strategies that can be immediately applied to patient care.

Presented by Dorothy Villano, PT

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Objectives
1)Describe and summarize the impact of Tai Chi on physical function, mental and cognitive health.
2)Experience and practice Tai Chi exercises in sitting, supported standing and standing.
3) Describe the experience of Tai Chi on breathing, posture, and performance of basic motor tasks: somatosensory awareness, energy expenditure, and balance.
4) Contrast traditional exercise, gait, balance, and position changes with Tai Chi influenced movement.
5) Develop strategies to implement Tai Chi across patient populations across the continuum of care.
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