As a responsibility the School has to promote a culture of prevention founded on a proactive management of the risk and safety, specific tools, a strict procedure and, over all, a careful behavior of the teachers.

Since 2002 the School is equipped with a Health commission coordinated by Marie-Thérèse BOSMAN, teaching midwife, and Paul LAUWERS, doctor-acupunctor.

The purpose of this commission is to support a modern medical approach to answer questions about Taijiquan, to carry out studies integrating blood proportionings, biodynamic measurements, MT, heart testings, etc.

Some priority questions that the practitioner asks to himself haved been indexed below. The purpose of the commission is to answer it regularly reactualizing information according to the state of scientific knowledge:

• What does Taijiquan bring to the level health ? Objectivable and subjective effects, fight against gratuitous assertions .
• Which is the specificity of Taijiquan compared to different sports or physical activities?
• Which are the indications and countra-indications of Taijiquan in general and of various practices particularly ? (ex : tui-shou : cardiac effects ; stop on posture : effects on the knees, ankles…)
• Which are the adaptations to bring according to the healthes and how to prevent pathologies ?
• Traditional approaches : authenticity and adequacy of Chi Kung.

Methodology employed will use various means:

• Review of the literature : critical analysis and synthesis. Ex: French-speaking company of sport, university services of sporting medicine, Adeps, Olympic medical Committee, Internet…
• Retrospective and prospective survey in Taijiquan School and C.A.P. group
  • Retrospective study: subjective, all current participants.
  • Exploratory study:
  • subjective: everyone who begin.
  • objective: random choice, agreement of the participant, multidisciplinary follow-up, instrumental measurements.
• Survey on the physical, psychic, social, emotional, economic effects (cf definition of health by WHO).