Slow movements， calming3 thoughts and deep breathing—this is the Chineseart of tai chi. People have practiced it for hundreds of years， and it’s known tokeep you healthy. But according to a new study， it may also help slow down thesymptoms of Parkinson’s disease by several years.

緩慢的動作，平靜的思想及深呼吸———這就是中國的太極藝術。人們練習它已經有幾百年的歷史了，眾所周知它能強身健體。但根據一項新的研究，它也可能有助于將帕金森病的癥狀減緩幾年。

There is no cure4 for Parkinson’s disease. It causes5 symptoms like shakingand difficulty of speaking and moving. For years， doctors and researchers have triedto find ways to slow down the symptoms or make them more manageable6.

帕金森病無法治愈，這種疾病會導致顫抖、說話和行動困難等癥狀。多年來，醫(yī)生和研究人員一直試圖找到緩解這些癥狀或使其更易于控制的方法。

Somestudieshavefound thattaichican helpParkinson’ssymptoms in the short term， but little was known about itseffects7 in the long term. To find out more， researchers fromthe Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine inChina monitored8 a group of 330 people with Parkinson’s atdifferent times between January 2016 and June 2021.

有些研究發(fā)現，太極可以在短期內幫助緩解帕金森病的癥狀，但其長期效果還不為人知。為了解更多信息，中國上海交通大學醫(yī)學院的研究人員在2016 年1月至2021 年6 月期間的不同時間段里，對330 名帕金森病患者進行了監(jiān)測。

One group of 143 people did tai chi twice a week for one hour， and the othergroup of 187 people didn’t. The result showed that the progression9 of the diseasewas slower in the group that did tai chi.

其中一組143 人每周打兩次太極，每次1 小時，另一組187 人則沒有打太極。結果顯示，打太極的那組人疾病進程較慢。

The researchers said the size of the studied group was quite small， so theycould not prove10 that tai chi was the only reason for these improvements. Butbased on these results， they said that tai chi can be used to manage symptoms ofParkinson’s disease.

研究人員說，研究對象小組的規(guī)模非常小，所以他們不能證實太極是促使這種改善產生的唯一原因。但是基于這些結果，他們說太極可以用來控制帕金森病的癥狀。