US EditionTango Dance Workshops Offer Hope for Parkinson's Patients in Argentina
Workshops at Ramos Mejia Hospital have engaged 200 Parkinson's patients over 15 years, showing improvements in motor function, balance, and social interaction through Argentine tango.
- In Buenos Aires, tango workshops invite Parkinson's patients like Lidia Beltran to dance with non-affected partners under guidance of dance therapists like Manuco Firmani.
- Because walking is central to tango, neurologists Nelida Garretto and Tomoko Arakaki explain Argentine tango builds a sensory pathway engaging rhythm, direction, and partner cues to aid gait disorder.
- Program data show some 200 patients have joined tango workshops at Ramos Mejia Hospital, with annual evaluations recording improvements in cognition, motor skills, gait, and balance.
- Patients say 66-year-old Lidia Beltran, diagnosed two years ago, finds dancing boosts her stability and mood, and classes end with applause and `an air of satisfaction`.
- While medical therapy continues, programs operate alongside standard pharmaceutical treatments and many patients joined workshops on doctors' advice, expressing determination to dance and using movement strategies like the 'figure eight' to overcome freezing.
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When the tango sound starts to rise in the room, Lidia Beltran exorcises the Parkinson's disease that causes it, puts it on her therapist and dances with fluidity and gratitude along with other patients, within one...
In Argentina, the tango keeps Parkinson’s symptoms at bay
When the tango begins to play, Lidia Beltran shrugs off the Parkinson's that plagues her, takes hold of her therapist and dances, her body fluid and her steps precise, as part of an innovative treatment program in Buenos Aires. Some 200 patients have participated in tango workshops offered over the past 15 years at Ramos
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In Argentina, the tango keeps Parkinson's symptoms at bay
When the tango begins to play, Lidia Beltran shrugs off the Parkinson's that plagues her, takes hold of her therapist and dances, her body fluid and her steps precise, as part of an innovative treatment program in Buenos Aires.
When the tango music begins, Lidia Beltrán ignores her Parkinson's disease, grabs her therapist, and begins dancing with precise steps as part of an innovative therapy program in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Some 200 patients have participated in this program, which has been offered for 15 years by the Ramos Mejía Hospital, to study the effect of dance on the symptoms of this incurable neurodegenerative disease, according to its supervisors. "One of…
About 200 patients have participated in this 15-year active workshop
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