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Accreditation Standard Guideline Initiative for Tai Chi and Qigong Instructors and Training Institutions.

ABSTRACT: Evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong (TQ) have emerged in the past two decades, but TQ is underutilized in modern health care in Western countries due to lack of promotion and the availability of professionally qualified TQ instructors. To date, there are no government regulations for TQ instructors or for training institutions in China and Western countries, even though TQ is considered to be a part of Traditional Chinese medicine that has the potential to manage many chronic diseases. Based on an integrative health care approach, the accreditation standard guideline initiative for TQ instructors and training institutions was developed in collaboration with health professionals, integrative medicine academics, Tai Chi and Qigong master instructors and consumers including public safety officers from several countries, such as Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Sweden and USA. In this paper, the rationale for organizing the Medical Tai Chi and Qigong Association (MTQA) is discussed and the accreditation standard guideline for TQ instructors and training institutions developed by the committee members of MTQA is presented. The MTQA acknowledges that the proposed guidelines are broad, so that the diversity of TQ instructors and training institutions can be integrated with recognition that these guidelines can be developed with further refinement. Additionally, these guidelines face challenges in understanding the complexity of TQ associated with different principles, philosophies and schools of thought. Nonetheless, these guidelines represent a necessary first step as primary resource to serve and guide health care professionals and consumers, as well as the TQ community.

SUBMITTER: Oh B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6023434 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Accreditation Standard Guideline Initiative for Tai Chi and Qigong Instructors and Training Institutions.

Oh Byeongsang B Yeung Albert A Klein Penelope P Larkey Linda L Ee Carolyn C Zaslawski Chris C Knobf Tish T Payne Peter P Stener-Victorin Elisabet E Lee Richard R Choi Whanseok W Chun Mison M Bonucci Massimo M Lang Hanne-Doris HD Pavlakis Nick N Boyle Fran F Clarke Stephen S Back Michael M Yang Peiying P Wei Yulong Y Guo Xinfeng X Weng Chi-Hsiu D CD Irwin Michael R MR Elfiky Aymen A AA Rosenthal David D

Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) 20180608 2

Evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of <i>Tai Chi and Qigong</i> (TQ) have emerged in the past two decades, but TQ is underutilized in modern health care in Western countries due to lack of promotion and the availability of professionally qualified TQ instructors. To date, there are no government regulations for TQ instructors or for training institutions in China and Western countries, even though TQ is considered to be a part of Traditional Chinese medicine that has the potential to ...[more]

PMID: 29890675

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