Conditions: Spinocerebellar Ataxias Tai Chi
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 21
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Spinocerebellar atrophy is the most common autosomal dominant inherited ataxia. There are over thirty subtypes, which characterize neurologic features differently. They all have obvious substantial cerebellar atrophies in image, and unstable gait、ataxia. In general a prevalence of about three cases per 100 000 people is assumed, but this may be an underestimate. Progressive neurologic degeneration, in about 10-20 years, will leads to disability or wheelchair-dependent. Accompanying with fatigue, downhill course of the disease often made patients depressive and hopeless. The recent review of researches concludes no effective therapy for the disease. The purpose of the investigator's study is to explore the Tai-chi exercise effect for spinocerebellar ataxia.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: participants in this group accepted Tai chi exercise and conventional medicine. arm 2: participants were not received Tai chi exercise, but only routine conventional medicine

Interventions: intervention 1: Tai chi intervention 2: conventional medicine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: participants were required to receive hospital-based Tai chi training at least once a month, and home-based Tai chi exercise at least three times a week over the next 9 months intervention 2: participants without Tai chi training still received routine conventional medicine

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