T'ai chi and qigong for health: patterns of use in the United States

Appearing in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine [2009 Sep;15(9):969-73]; by Birdee GS, Wayne PM, Davis RB, Phillips RS, Yeh GY, Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, this summary "analyzed associations of t'ai chi and qigong use for health using cross-sectional data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Alternative Medicine Supplement (n = 31,044). The 2002 NHIS estimated the number of t'ai chi and qigong users for health to be 2.5 and 0.5 million persons, respectively."  Half of the t'ai chi and qigong users reported also using "yoga for health in the last 12 months."  Abstract: PubMed.