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Thanks for adding your voice to the Qigong article. You noted that you wanted to see "NIH has suggested that there is strong evidence that Qigong (and Taiji) can have positive effects for bone health, cardiopulmonary fitness, balance, and quality of life" added to the article. Everything in Wikipedia must be reliably sourced - nobody's personal authority is enough. For health related content, we have a special sourcing guideline that you can read here WP:MEDRS (basically, we only use sources that are either a) MEDLINE-indexed review articles -- for anything where there has been clinical trials, it needs to be a critical review of the clinical trial literature; and b) statements by "major medical or scientific bodies") So if the NIH or one of its institutes has actually put out a statement like that, it would probably qualify as a MEDRS-compliant source. So can you please provide the pubmed citation or the link to the page where the NIH states that, on the Talk page? Without that, we cannot even evaluate your suggestion. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 02:45, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Developmentalist You can find an NIH research spotlight here http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/071910.htm Also, NIH has produced videos on Taiji and Qigong which it maintains are safe and effective for promoting health and wellness. The director of NCCAM introduces the videos found at this link http://nccam.nih.gov/video/taichiDVD If there were not some consensus that Taiji and Qigong were beneficial, NIH would not be promoting them and teaching people how to do it. Of the many researchers and clinicians that I know working in this area, consensus is that there is strong evidence for certain benefits, mentioned in the report above, and emerging evidence in other areas where more research is needed.Developmentalist (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- thanks! by the way there is no need to put your username first.. that is a weird thing that another editor generated on the qigong talk page to try to facilitate a vote. I appreciate you communicating your personal experience but that cannot be brought to bear on the discussion - we rely only on published sources that comply with MEDRS. Jytdog (talk) 03:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)