Vol 8, Issue 2/2002

MovementQuality of Life and the Ability to Move

A report on a study dealing with Qigong and ms. By Zuzana Sebková-Thaller

To the alternative treatments of multiple sclerosis belong the therapies operating with the accompanying support of Qigong, which not only contributes to an astonishing improvement in physical symptoms, but can also have a favourable effect on the patient's overall attitude to life. This has been documented scientifically for the first time in Germany at the Kiliani Hospital in Bad Windsheim. Zuzana Sebková-Thaller, who has conducted Qigong courses for ms patients there for several years, describes the objectives pursued by these courses, the exercises put together for them and the positive results attained by the study.
Her contribution is supplemented by a first-hand report from Ivonne Radtke who herself found her way to Qigong as an ms patient. Encouraged by her teacher Li Zhi Chang, for seven years now she has practised silent Qigong and has yet to suffer any further worsening of her condition, indeed the already existing symptoms have been reduced. In addition, she describes how her overall attitude towards life has changed.

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