Tango, an Innovative Therapy Against Parkinson’s Disease

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When tango begins to sound, Lidia Beltrán exorcises the Parkinson that numbs her, embraces her therapist and dances with meticulous fluidity along with other patients in an innovative treatment that prompted a public hospital in Buenos Aires. Some 200 patients have attended tango workshops that have been organized for 15 years by the Ramos Mejía hospital to study its impact on the evolution of the symptoms of this unhealed neurodegenerative dise…