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Wheelchair Tai Chi helping veterans cope with trauma. Crisis creates opportunity. That’s one of the philosophies espoused by Zibin Guo and a mainstay of the Wheelchair/Adaptive Tai Chi for Veterans program, which he directs. Funded by the Adaptive Sports Program of the United States Veterans Administration, the program integrates deep breathing with the gentle, flowing movements of Tai Chi Chuan, a martial art known for its health benefits and meditation.
Teaching VA Health Care Providers Wheelchair Tai Chi for Veterans
In 2016, Zibin Guo began teaching Veterans the quiet martial art of Tai Chi. He taught the class at a Veterans Affairs hospital for the first time in Murfreesboro, N.C.
3-day Wheelchair Tai Chi Trainings offered to Health Care Providers at Milwaukee and Madison VA
Pan flute music like an old-time kung fu movie drifts serenely through the recreation room of the Milwaukee VA’s Spinal Cord Injury Center. Zibin Guo talks of swaying breezes, mountain streams and the peaceful but powerful force of nature.
Alternative Therapy: Veterans find Relief through Tai Chi
In an effort to decrease drug dependency, VA is actively exploring alternative forms of therapy to help Veterans ease pain and trauma. Most VA hospitals today offer some form of alternative treatment, such as yoga, mindfulness and art therapy.
Veterans try Wheelchair Tai Chi to Reduce Medications and Treat Conditions
Every week in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Zibin Guo guides veterans in wheelchairs through slow-motion tai chi poses as a Bluetooth speaker plays soothing instrumental music. "Cloudy hands to the right, cloudy hands to the left," he tells them. "Now we're going to open your arms, grab the wheels and 180-degree turn."
Veterans in Middle Tennessee are using Tai Chi to Help with Pain and Stress
An ancient form of exercise is helping to change veterans' lives in the Midstate. At the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, veterans who use wheelchairs say they go to adaptive tai chi to help relieve chronic pain and take their minds off their injuries.
Wheelchair Tai Chi used as Alternative Medicine for Veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been desperate to cut down on the use of powerful pills. So the mammoth agency has taken a sharp turn toward alternative medicine.
Fitness and Empowerment: Veterans Benefit from Adaptive Tai Chi
Veterans at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) Alvin C. York hospital are taking part in "Adaptive Tai Chi," which is designed to be practiced in a wheelchair. The unique program was developed by Dr. Zibin Guo, a medical anthropologist and Tai Chi master at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Fitness and Empowerment: Veterans Benefit from Adaptive Tai Chi
Veterans at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) Alvin C. York hospital are taking part in “Adaptive Tai Chi,” which is designed to be practiced in a wheelchair. The unique program was developed by Dr. Zibin Guo, a medical anthropologist and Tai Chi master at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.