Sitting-walking Derived from Tai Chi Gait: A Fundamental Improvement to Fall Prevention in Older Adults (Part 2)—Advantages of Sitting-walking

Humans have never questioned the unique normal walking (NW) pattern they rely on for survival.Even if instability or falls occur during walking, people do not attribute the problem to their walking pattern, but rather to their physiological (including psychological) factors.A significant body of literature primarily emphasizes individual physiological (including psychological) aspects when addressing fall prevention in older adults.It seems that the NW pattern is perfect.However, this is not entirely the case.Aiming to address the phenomenon of human instability or falls during walking, after years of observation and exploration, the authors discovered that the primary cause of instability or falls during walking mainly originates from issues within the problems existing in the NW itself.In response, the authors propose a sitting-walking (SW) mode derived from the Tai Chi gait.The long-term practice has confirmed the uniqueness of SW in maintaining gait balance.In this paper, by comparing NW with SW, the problems associated with NW and the uniqueness of SW will be discussed.The main problems of NW and its negative effects on walking stability and the body are discussed, focusing on gait, balance, and posture.At the same time, according to the characteristics of SW (described in the first part), the paper introduces the advantages of SW in terms of walking stability while effectively avoiding the related problems of NW.