According to researches, Tai Chi, a Chinese exercise that uses both mind and body, can aid in preventing the shingles virus by increasing the bodys immunity against the VZV or varicella-zoster virus. Aside from preventing it, Tai Chi can also boost the bodys response to the vaccine for old adults. VZV is the virus that is responsible for diseases like shingles and chickenpox.
Understanding Shingles
Shingles is a kind of viral infection that causes debilitating rashes that are quite painful. It appears as blisters that can be seen at the middle of the persons back turning to one side of his chest and overwhelming the breastbone. Parts of your body like the scalp, neck and face are also affected. Shingles can be excruciatingly painful.
One way to identify the disease is to pinpoint where it all started because shingles usually originates at one side of the body. Shingles is a sort of long term side-effect of chickenpox. It is because after having chickenpox, the virus within the body becomes inactive. After years, it gets to be reactivated as shingles.
Shingles is not a life-threatening situation but can be severely painful and can lead to a...