Arthritis Therapy Wales

Arthritis Therapy Wales (Sun Style Tai Chi for Arthritis)

There is, as yet, no cure for most kinds of arthritis. Many people get depressed thinking there is nothing they can do and even restrict their activity in the hope of improvement.
However this attitude is counter productive and in most cases adopting a program of suitable exercise is essential to help prevent further deterioration, and much improve their future quality of life.

Not all types of exercise are however suitable. It is important to adopt a program using the correct type of theraputic exercise suitable for arthritis. Doctors may give helpful medicines, but can rarely provide patients with long term programmes of suitable complementary exercise, or have the information needed to refer patients to an exercise suitable for arthritis.
Where then can an arthritis sufferers turn to for help with a suitable exercise programme?

There is an internationally famous Sun Tai Chi exercise program for arthritis, devised by Dr Paul Lam MBBS FAMAC, with advice by physiotherapists and rheumatologists. It is called Tai Chi for Arthritis TCA and is for example taught by the Arthritis Foundation of America to arthritis sufferers in the US. Dr Lam provides courses all over the world to train instructors in the short program of the rare Sun Style of Tai Chi, which is recognised as the best style for arthritis therapy. People wishing to help arthritis sufferers can attend one of his weekend workshops and obtain his teachers certificate to teach his short program.

He holds a workshop in England about once a year and there are about 180 holding his teachers license in England now but only 3, yes three, in all of Wales???. Could this huge difference mean that only people in England suffer from arthritis? Could it be no one cares about sufferers in Wales? or could it be the cost of going to England to train puts people off?
People travelling from Wales to his weekend workshop course in England to obtain his teachers two year license, have to pay,(course, hotel, trainfare and meals) about £400 every two years.

Assuming cost is the reason, rather than Welsh apathy, and with our desire to help sufferers in Wales. The Swimming Dragon School provides free training for new teachers in a similar but alternative short course in Sun Style Tai Chi in Porthcawl. Our teachers license lasts a life time not just two years. You do not have to have arthritis or want to teach arthritis sufferers to join our therapy class or train to be a licensed instructor. The therapy is also good for health in many other ways, such as improving balance, mobility, relaxation, blood pressure, muscle tone, posture etc.etc.

This website has been on display for many years and the complete lack of interest shown suggests that unlike English people who are prepared to pay high course fees for a license to teach for two years, there is strangely little or no appreciation of our offer of free teacher training to teach for life now available in Wales.

If you prefer, and need to pay before you can apprecaiate the value of training, you can also pay us £180 for two days training every two years. As we are a non profit organisation we will give the course profits to charity.

E-mail Arthritis Therapy Wales on sunsdragon@hotmail.com

Home Page Cobwebs Online
Bridgend County Borough Council can take no responsibility for the contents of this site.
Last Updated:2011-11-15