Qigong in Cancer Care - Updated Systemic Review and Meta-analysis
This timely article reviews twelve recent studies on Tai Chi and Qigong and its impact on cancer survivors. Using the Cochrane Collaboration Review Manager, a total of 915 subjects from 12 studies conducted since 2014 studying Qigong and Tai Chi treatments were reviewed. As before, the evidence is very supportive. The studies all had controls, and compared usual care, support groups, waitlist control or sham Qigong control. The Qigong/Tai Chiinterventions had positive effects on reducing the clinical symptoms of fatigue, sleep difficulties, anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms, and improved overall quality of life. The only editorial comment is to watch for the sudden reversal in the graphs for which side showed the impact. For the first two graphs, the control results appeared on the left and the Qigong/Tai Chi results showed on the right. For the remaining graphs, the Qigong/Tai Chi results showed on the left, and the control results appeared on the right.
Written by CJ Rhoads, December 26, 2020.