University of Washington, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Recent research shows that people with Parkinson's Disease who dance tango do better on the Timed Up and Go test.
The researchers focused on people with Parkinson's Disease because these people present the same types of balance and gait problems experienced by the frail elderly.
(The researchers also discovered that tango improves balance. Clearly, I was not in that study.)
You could go online to read the full report. But why? It is full of big words and long sentences. Let me summarize the main idea of this report for you.
One Heart Dancing's Fully Reliable Medical Summary: If you intend to live long, dance on!
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More on medical TANGO:
Reduced expression of TANGO in colon and hepatocellular carcinomas
Institute of Pathology, University of Regensburg, Germany
Recently, we identified TANGO as a tumor suppressor in malignant melanoma. ... Our studies present for the first time ... functional relevant loss of TANGO expression may contribute to general tumor development and progression.
Again with the big words!
One Heart's Fully Reliable Medical Summary: If you sunbathe and eat junk, TANGO!
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Cardiac pain while dancing the tango
Citation only available, but I am writing the authors for a copy of the full report.
Judging from the fully informative title, here is
One Heart's Fully Reliable Medical Summary: To dance tango, the dance of the heart, you must experience the ache of the heart. But if you are having a heart attack, please go to the hospital.
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Motor imagery of walking following training in locomotor attention. The effect of "the tango lesson"
Center for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, University of Turin
The hypothesis of this study is that focusing attention on walking motor schemes could modify sensorimotor activation of the brain....
In our training, subjects were asked to perform basic tango steps, which require specific ways of walking; each tango lesson ended with motor imagery training of the performed steps. ...
The results show that training determines an expansion of active bilateral motor areas during locomotor imagery. This finding, together with a reduction of visuospatial activation in the posterior right brain, suggests a decreased role of visual imagery processes in the post-training period in favor of motor-kinesthetic ones.
Yet again, One Heart summarizes the medical jargon for you!
One Heart's Fully Reliable Medical Summary: Once you've seen a new step, you need to do it ... and keep doing it, to get it right.
Practica starts in 3 hours. Let's motor-kinesthetize!
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Thanks to Brian Dunn for the heads-up on the research regarding people with Parkinson's Disease. Read a summary of the report.
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