Tai Chi Qigong Research and Education in

U niversity of E ast- W est Medic ine

Speaker Bio: Dr. Yingqiu Wang, DAOM, LAc. MD (China), a founder and President of University of East-West Medicine, a Manipulative Medicine and Traditional Therapy Master, a Chair of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Committee of iMTQA. Dr. Wang has forty years clinical studies in Herguan Medical Qigong; Some of his research was done with Stanford University, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China, and Beijing Medical University, China

Agenda

● Tai Chi Qigong Research and Education in University of East -West Medicine (UEWM)

○ A Skill that Medical Students Must Have - Qigong■ Statistics from a research paper authored by Amy Yang and co -author by Dr. Yingqiu Wang for

Medical Qigong class at UEWM

○ Achievement Highlight from Taichi Qigong research■ A research paper “ The Study of the Effectiveness of Cardio Tai Chi for Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A

Pilot Study." by UEWM Graduate Dr. Timothy Tin, presented at the FISU Conference in Taipei in August, 2017 and published in the 2017 International University Sports Federation summer conference. Dr. Weng was the co -author of this research paper.

■ Dr. Tin’s doctoral dissertation, “The Therapeutic Effectiveness of Cardio Kung Fu” had been successfully presented to the faculty of Doctor program with honor and recognition!

A Skill That Medical Student Must Have - Qigong

Abstract

Analyze what Medical

Qigong can bring to benefit

our health and why learning

it is important for medical

students.

Method

Data was collected from

UEWM Qigong class for

Master Degree of Science in

Traditional Chinese

Medicine.

Results

274 health issues being

collected among 151

students. 62.3% benefit

from Medical Qigong; 19.9%

did not experience obvious

benefits, 17.9% did not

respond to this survey.

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Instructions

★ Learn and practice Medical Qigong (Herguan style)

★ Encourage students to find alternative way to help their future patients to cure chronic illness

★ Students shared their experience on whether or not this medical Qigong class benefit on their own personal health issues.

★ Goal: identity the benefit of Herguan Medical Qigong to be used in students’ future career as healthcare professional

★ Is Medical Qigong important for medical professionals?

★ The research is to find out if there is any statistical results to support the idea that Qigong will benefit medical professionals and make them ready to serve their future patients well.

★ The research data is collected from Qigong class CM215 conducted in a classroom setting.

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Data Size:

★ There are total of 274 health issues being collected among 151 students

Materials and Methods

Design and Setting:

★ The style of QiGong is designed and practiced by Dr. Yingqiu Wang for 30 plus years.

★ Student is required to learn Medical Qigong in class and practice the learning during the class and at home.

★ Student will write a report at the end of their semester about whether or not this class has benefit for their own

personal health issues or noticeable benefit on body and mind health or they can write Qigong philosophy and

health in general.

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Intervention Description: The goal of this research is to find out from students’ report whether or not thisclass has a benefit for their own personal health issues. What are the most common type of health issues thatcan be helped by this Medical Qigong exercise.

Data collection: Data is retrieved from students’ reports and was summarized based on health syndromesbefore the class semester and at the end of the class semester. The description of each student’s health issueis kept as the original description. If the report is written in Chinese (for Chinese class) we translated themeaning of the syndrome as close as we can.

Measurements: Data is quantified based on student’s description; the words “better”, “100% recovered”, “nochange” are interpreted as “syndrome is improved”, “syndrome is fully recovered”, and “syndrome is the same”respectively.

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Distribution of Raw Data of the Medical Qigong Class

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Distribution of Data between ‘has -e ffec t’ a n d ‘n o-effec t’

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Analysis of Data for the Benefit of Medical Qigong

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Analysis of Data for Body Health/Relaxation

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AChievements Highlight from Taichi Qigong Researches

Researches

★ “The Study of the Effectiveness of Cardio Tai Chi for Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Pilot Study. " by UEW M Graduate Dr. Timothy Tin

★ He presented at the FISU Conference in Taipei in August, 2017 and published in the 2017 International University Sports Federation summer conference.

★ “The Therapeutic Effectiveness of Cardio Kung Fu ” had been successfully presented to the faculty of Doctor program with honor and recognition!

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AChievements Highlight from Taichi Qigong Researches

Taichi Qigong College

★ Lead by Dr. Chi-Shiu Weng who is the Grand Master of Shui Jao & Cardio Tai Chi, UEWM has been invited and

participated to many national and international Taichi Qigong Event:

★ Keynote speaker in the International Conference on Physical Education, Sports Medicine and Doping Studies

in Aug 8, 2018 in Osaka, Japan

★ Moderator for Panel Speech on Tai Chi for Chronic Conditions and the Auditorium for Tai Chi used for Chronic

Pain in UCLA 2018 2nd Annual Symposium on the Potential of Chinese Medicine Tai Chi for Health .

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AChievements Highlight from Taichi Qigong Researches

Taichi Qigong Outlook

∙ Nov 2018, in B eijing China, Int’l Cultural Allianc e S ummit

∙ April 2019, iMT QA 2nd event in S an J ose

∙ Oct 2019, Y ang S heng Medic al Qigong - Core Universe Medic ine S ummit

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Tai Chi & Qi Outlook for 2019

Outlook of Future Summits

April 2019Bay Area, CA

Nov. 2018Beijing, China

Oct 2019Bay Area, CA

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In Harmony with Univer se

天人合一

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Core Universe MedicineA theory essentially postulates that humanity is intrinsically connected to the Universe, and is thus capable of receiving energy from universe

He Who Lives in Harmony with Himself Lives in

Harmony with the U niverse - Marcus Aurelius

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T hanks!Any questions?You can find me at:

Ying Qiu Wang <yingwang@uewm.edu>

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