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Participants
Start Date
November 11, 2018
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2021
Study Completion Date
August 30, 2021
12-week community-based multi-model Tai Chi rehabilitation program
Participants will receive 12 x 90 minute sessions of supervised exercises over 12 weeks. In addition to usual care, supervised exercise will be held at the Center of Sports Training and Rehabilitation inside the University and each class will be restricted to no more than 8 participants to ensure sufficient personalized attention. Each training session involves warm-up together with stretching of lower extremity muscles, strengthening exercises of the major lower extremity muscle groups by Theraband, balancing exercise, Tai Chi training, and rest/ cool-down. All lower-extremity exercises will be performed bilaterally.
Usual post-operative care
No intervention will be provided
Untreated asymptomatic controls
No intervention will be provided
The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univeristy, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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