Effectiveness of Tai Chi as a Therapeutic Exercise in Improving Balance and Postural Control
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tai Chi (TC) is an ancient form of meditative exercise used to improve and maintain good health. To determine whether TC is effective in improving balance, a meta-analysis of the published literature was completed. Two investigators independently identified articles by searching 4 databases using the keywords: Tai Chi, balance, and postural control. Seven eligible articles were evaluated using a score-sheet that quantifies methodologic rigor developed by the investigators for this study; scores ranged from 33 to 43 (out of a maximum score of 49). For each article, the effect size of each outcome measure was quantified using the d-index (d). The mean d of measures corresponding to static conditions, internal perturbations, and external perturbations were -0.07 Q0.37, 1.52 []1.13, and 0.04 []0.40 respectively. Pearson's r between d and the score was []0.70, indicating a strong negative correlation between effect size and methodologic rigor. There is moderate research-based evidence to support the use of TC to improve balance and postural control as measured by responses to internal perturbations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it