title: Curative effect of Tai Chi exercise in combination with auricular plaster therapy on improving obesity patient with secondary hyperlipidemia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Observe the effect of Tai Chi in combination with auricular plaster therapy on treating obesity patient with secondary hyperlipidemia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Select 45 patients who suffer from simple obesity and secondary hyperlipidemia and then adopt random digital table to divide them into a Tai Chi group, an auricular plaster therapy group and a combination group. Each group consists of 15 patients. The patients in Tai Chi group are trained with Tai Chi twice a day, while those in auricular plaster therapy are treated with auricular plaster therapy 3-5 times a day and those in the combination group are trained with Tai Chi and auricular plaster therapy twice a day. BMI, body fat percentage and blood lipid indexes are respectively detected for the selected patients in the three groups before treatment and after 180 days' treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 180 days' treatment, BMI index and body fat percentage of Tai Chi group are significantly improved in comparison with those before treatment (P<0.05) and the blood lipid index also presents the improvement trend, but the overall effect is not obvious; body fat percentage and BMI index of the auricular plaster therapy group are not improved obviously in comparison with those before the treatment (P>0.05) but the blood lipid index is improved significantly (P<0.05); each index of the combination group is improved significantly compared with those before treatment (P<0.05). By comparing the improvement effect after treatment with that of the other two groups, P<0.05, the difference shows the statistical significance and the treatment effect is more obvious.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As for the patient suffering from simple obesity and secondary hyperlipidemia, Tai Chi exercise in combination with auricular plaster therapy can show the obvious synergistic therapeutic effect and thus the combined curative effect is obviously superior to that of the single therapy method.
authors.affiliation: The Center of Physical Health, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Qinghua
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: The Lab of Human Body Science, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Yandong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: The Lab of Human Body Science, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.affiliation: The Center of Physical Health, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Ximei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
keywords: Tai chi; auricular plaster; combination; curative effect; hyperlipidemia; obesity