太极拳对中老人健身效果的研究现状及展望

Current state of and future expectation for researches on the effects of Taijichuan on the fitness of middle-age and elderly people

收集分析了近10年来国内外有关太极拳对中老年人健身效果的相关文献,得出结论:1)长期太极拳练习对中老年人心肺功能、免疫功能、心理健康水平、运动机能、细胞因子及血脂代谢功能均有显著促进作用,是中老年人群理想的锻炼方式;2)不同太极拳系之间的横向比较、太极拳健身效果的特异性研究、太极拳健身效果显效规律研究以及太极拳对上肢协控能力影响的研究较少,将来需加强。

The authors collected and analyzed related literature about the effects of Taijichuan on the fitness of middle-age and elderly people at home and abroad in recent 10 years, and drew the following conclusions： 1） Taijichuan exercising over a long period of time plays a significant role in boosting the cardiopulmonary functions, immune functions, mental heath level, sports functions, cytokine and flood fat metabolism functions of middle-age and elderly people, being an ideal way of exercising for middle-age and elderly people; 2） there are too few researches on the horizontal comparison between different Taijichuan series, the particularity of the fitness effects of Taijichuan, the effective pattems of the fitness effects of Taijichuan, and the effects of Taijichuan on the capacity to control the upper limbs harmoniously.