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ArticleBioMed research international2015

Qigong as a Traditional Vegetative Biofeedback Therapy: Long-Term Conditioning of Physiological Mind-Body Effects.

Luís Carlos Matos, Cláudia Maria Sousa, Mário Gonçalves, Joaquim Gabriel, Jorge Machado, Henry Johannes Greten

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Article in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Luís Carlos MatosInstituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Largo Professor Abel Salazar 2, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal.
Cláudia Maria SousaInstituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Largo Professor Abel Salazar 2, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal.
Mário GonçalvesInstituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Largo Professor Abel Salazar 2, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal ; German Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Karlsruher Straße 12, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany ; Heidelberg School of Chinese Medicine, Karlsruher Straße 12, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany.
Joaquim GabrielDepartamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Jorge MachadoInstituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Largo Professor Abel Salazar 2, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal ; Porto Biomechanics Laboratory (LABIOMEP), University of Porto, Rua Dr. Plácido Costa 91, 4200 450 Porto, Portugal.
Henry Johannes GretenInstituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Largo Professor Abel Salazar 2, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal ; German Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Karlsruher Straße 12, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany ; Heidelberg School of Chinese Medicine, Karlsruher Straße 12, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany.
Universidade do Porto · PTGerman Society of Surgery · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A contemporary understanding of Chinese Medicine (CM) regards CM diagnosis as a functional vegetative state that may be treated by vegetative reflex therapies such as acupuncture. Within this context, traditional mind-body exercises such as Qigong can be understood as an attempt to enhance physiological proprioception, by combining a special state of "awareness" with posture, movement, and breath control. We have formerly trained young auditing flutists in "White Ball" Qigong to minimize anxiety-induced cold hands and lower anxiety-induced heart rate. Functional changes occurred 2-5 min after training and were observed over the whole training program, allowing the children to control their symptoms. In our current work, we report that warm fingers and calm hearts could be induced by the children even without Qigong exercises. Thus, these positive changes once induced and "conditioned" vegetatively were stable after weeks of training. This may show the mechanism by which Qigong acts as a therapeutic measure in disease: positive vegetative pathways may be activated instead of dysfunctional functional patterns. The positive vegetative patterns then may be available in critical stressful situations. Qigong exercise programs may therefore be understood as an ancient vegetative biofeedback exercise inducing positive vegetative functions which are added to the individual reactive repertoire.

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Breathing ExercisesMedicine, Chinese TraditionalQigongAnxiety DisordersBiofeedback, PsychologyChildFemaleHumansMaleStress, Psychological

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PMCPMC4475564
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