Effects of Different Health Qigong Routines on CS Among Chinese College Students

Summary

Health Qigong, originated from Chinese traditional guidance techniques, is known as China's "six major medical techniques" together with "stone breaking", "acupuncture and moxibustion", "massage", "medicine" and "walking on stilts" of traditional Chinese medicine, and has dual functions of sports and medicine. It mainly takes its own physical activities, breathing, and psychological regulation as its main form, improving the overall functional state of the human body through both internal and external cultivation, and improving the training practice method system of its own life movement. At present, it has 9 popular routines around the world, such as the famous Yi Jin Jing, Wu Qin Xi, Ba Duan Jin, and Liu Zi Jue. In the exercise therapy of cervical spondylosis, the exercise form of Health Qigong is similar to Tai Chi, and has greater advantages compared to other sports(Tai Chi, McKinsey, Cervical Spine Exercise, Resistance Exercise, etc). Previous studies have confirmed that Health Qigong·Yijinjing combined with acupuncture and moxibustion, massage and other intervention therapies can repair cervical muscle fibers, relieve pain and improve cervical function. Health Qigong·Wuqinxi combined with other intervention therapies can positively promote the pain index, cervical mobility, and other factors in middle-aged and elderly patients with cervical spondylosis.Health Qigong·Baduanjin combined with other intervention therapies can enhance the stability of the cervical spine and not only help alleviate anxiety, depression, and other adverse psychological states in patients with cervical spondylosis, It can also reduce the degree of cervical mobility limitation, thereby reducing patient pain, alleviating clinical symptoms, improving clinical intervention effectiveness, and reducing recurrence rate. However, most studies have combined exercise therapy with physical therapy, medication therapy, and other interventions therapies, especially the study of using Health Qigong as an independent exercise therapy to intervene in cervical spondylosis is even rarer. Therefore, this study selected Health Qigong·Yijinjing, Health Qigong·Wuqinxi, and Health Qigong·Baduanjin as independent exercise intervention projects to conduct intervention research on cervical spondylosis among college students, exploring the effects of these three Health Qigong routines on pain, cervical curvature, and cervical joint disorders of Chinese college students with cervical spondylosis.

Conditions

• Neck Pain
• Neck Disorder
• Cervical Spondylosis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health Qigong·Yijinjing

1-2weeks:learning stage, the frequency is 1 time/day, 5times/week,30 min /time,the total duration controlled within 50 minutes,and includes 4 intervention contents.Warm up activity:take a slow walk around the track and field to activate body and activate small joints (5min).Basic Skills learning of HQ·Yijinjing:breathing exercises,hand exercises,trunk exercises,step exercises,stake exercises(10min).Learning a single action of a routine (30min).Cool down (5min).3-8weeks:practice stage,the frequency and duration of intervention remain unchanged, and the intervention components still include 4 parts.Based on the first two weeks,the intervention content emphasizes more on the practice of complete routine movements, as well as learning and experience the theories and functions of movements.8-12weeks:stop intervention phase,the subjects resume their daily activities and stop intervention. After this, the final data measurement and collection are conducted again.

BEHAVIORAL

Health Qigong·Wuqinxi

1-2weeks:learning stage, the frequency is 1 time/day, 5times/week,30 min /time,the total duration controlled within 50 minutes,and includes 4 intervention contents.Warm up activity:take a slow walk around the track and field to activate body and activate small joints (5min).Basic Skills learning of HQ·Wuqinxi:breathing exercises,hand exercises,trunk exercises,step exercises,stake exercises(10min).Learning a single action of a routine (30min).Cool down (5min).3-8weeks:practice stage,the frequency and duration of intervention remain unchanged, and the intervention components still include 4 parts.Based on the first two weeks,the intervention content emphasizes more on the practice of complete routine movements, as well as learning and experience the theories and functions of movements.8-12weeks:stop intervention phase,the subjects resume their daily activities and stop intervention. After this, the final data measurement and collection are conducted again.

BEHAVIORAL

Health Qigong·Baduanjin

1-2weeks:learning stage, the frequency is 1 time/day, 5times/week,30 min /time,the total duration controlled within 50 minutes,and includes 4 intervention contents.Warm up activity:take a slow walk around the track and field to activate body and activate small joints (5min).Basic Skills learning of HQ·Baduanjin:breathing exercises,hand exercises,trunk exercises,step exercises,stake exercises(10min).Learning a single action of a routine (30min).Cool down (5min).3-8weeks:practice stage,the frequency and duration of intervention remain unchanged, and the intervention components still include 4 parts.Based on the first two weeks,the intervention content emphasizes more on the practice of complete routine movements, as well as learning and experience the theories and functions of movements.8-12weeks:stop intervention phase,the subjects resume their daily activities and stop intervention. After this, the final data measurement and collection are conducted again.

BEHAVIORAL

Walking

1-8weeks:While the experimental group received intervention, the control group underwent walking exercise. The intervention frequency is the same as the experimental group: 1 time/day, 5times/week,30 minutes/time, the total duration controlled within 50 minutes, and includes 3 contents.Warm up activity:head movements,neck movements,shoulder movements, chest expansion exercise,waist rotation,body rotation, lunge movements,leg movements,knee joint movements,ankle movements(15 min).Walk around the track and field (30 min).Cool down (5min) 8-12weeks:stop intervention phase,the subjects resume their daily activities and stop intervention. After this, the final data measurement and collection are conducted again.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universiti Putra Malaysia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Cong Liu, Phd · University Putra Malaysia

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

24 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-11-07

Primary Completion

2024-02-07

Completion

2024-03-07

Countries

• China

Study Locations