Qigong Institute

Author: Oh B^1,^2,³, Yeung A⁴, Klein P⁵, Larkey L⁶, Ee C⁷, Zaslawski C⁸, Knobf T⁹, Payne P¹⁰, Stener-Victorin E¹¹, Lee R¹², Choi W¹³, Chun M¹⁴, Bonucci M¹⁵, Lang HD¹⁶, Pavlakis N¹⁷, Boyle F¹⁸, Clarke S¹⁹, Back M²⁰, Yang P²¹, Wei Y²², Guo X²³, Weng CD²⁴, Irwin MR²⁵, Elfiky AA²⁶, Rosenthal D²⁷
Affiliation:
¹Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. byeong.oh@sydney.edu.au.
²School of Life Science, University of Technology, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia. byeong.oh@sydney.edu.au.
³Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. byeong.oh@sydney.edu.au.
⁴Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. AYEUNG@mgh.harvard.edu.
⁵D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY 14201, USA. kleinqpj@gmail.com.
⁶College of Nursing & Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA. linda.larkey@asu.edu.
⁷National Institute of Complementary Medicine Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW 2751, Australia. C.Ee@westernsydney.edu.au.
⁸School of Life Science, University of Technology, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia. Chris.Zaslawski@uts.edu.au.
⁹School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. tish.knobf@yale.edu.
¹⁰Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. Peter.Payne@dartmouth.edu.
¹¹Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 17165 Stockholm, Sweden. elisabet.stener-victorin@ki.se.
¹²School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. richard.t.lee@case.edu.
¹³Department of Family Medicine, The Catholic University College of Medicine, Seoul 06591, Korea. fmchs85@gmail.com.
¹⁴Department of Radiation Oncology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 443749, Korea. chunm@ajou.ac.kr.
¹⁵San Feliciano Hospital Rome, University of Chieti, 83-00166 Chieti, Italy. maxbonucci@artoi.it.
¹⁶Hanne-Doris Lang Medical Center, 20099 Hamburg, Germany. mail@hdlang.de.
¹⁷Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. nick.pavlakis@sydney.edu.au.
¹⁸Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. franb@bigpond.net.au.
¹⁹Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. stephen.clarke@sydney.edu.au.
²⁰Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. michael.back@sydney.edu.au.
²¹The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. pyang@mdanderson.org.
²²School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China. weiyulong@bucm.edu.cn.
²³The Second Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510006, China. guoxinfeng@gzucm.edu.cn.
²⁴College of Tai Chi, University of East-West Medicine, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. drcweng@aol.com.
²⁵Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. mirwin1@ucla.edu.
²⁶Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. aymen.elfiky@sloan.mit.edu.
²⁷Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Drose@huhs.harvard.edu.
Conference/Journal: Medicines (Basel).
Date published: 2018 Jun 8
Other: Volume ID: 5 , Issue ID: 2 , Special Notes: doi: 10.3390/medicines5020051. , Word Count: 268

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.

KEYWORDS: Qigong; Tai Chi; accreditation; certification; guideline; standards

PMID: 29890675 PMCID: PMC6023434 DOI: 10.3390/medicines5020051

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