Using a novel exercise programme for patients with muscular dystrophy: a qualitative study
Qigong was accepted as a novel exercise regimen and there was a wide variation of experience regarding it among the participants.One major advantage of qigong is the ability to adapt the different exercises to the physical capability of the practitioner.
Using a novel exercise programme for patients with
muscular dystrophy. Part I: a qualitative study.
Abstract
Muscular dystrophy patients have often experimented
with different alternative or complementary methods since there is at present
no curative medical treatment.
PURPOSE:
To evaluate, through qualitative analysis of interview
data, the subjective experiences of twenty-eight patients with muscular
dystrophy practising a complementary method, qigong.
METHODS:
Semi-structured qualitative interviews were performed
and data were analysed by a method inspired by Grounded Theory. The material
was first coded into 119 categories, thereafter condensed to 59 categories
through a constant comparison analysis. In the final analysis, six broad
categories were formed out of these 59 categories.
RESULTS:
These broad categories were: (1) experience of health
care and alternative methods; (2) expectations, acceptance and compliance; (3)
qigong as an adaptable form of exercise; (4) stress reduction and mental
effects; (5) increased body awareness and physical effects; (6) psychosocial
effects of group training.
CONCLUSION:
Qigong was accepted as a novel exercise regimen and
there was a wide variation of experience regarding it among the participants.
Depending upon factors such as expectation of benefits, time available to do
qigong and perceived effects doing it, compliance varied. One major advantage
of qigong is the ability to adapt the different exercises to the physical
capability of the person practising qigong. There were reports of mental,
physical and psychosocial effects of the qigong, which reduced the feeling of stress
and improved well-being.
Qigong was accepted as a novel exercise regimen and there was a wide variation of experience regarding it among the participants.One major advantage of qigong is the ability to adapt the different exercises to the physical capability of the practitioner. 
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