Dance Training ‘Drastically’ Reduces Parkinson’s Progression, Eases Symptoms

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Dance Training ‘Drastically’ Reduces Parkinson’s Progression, Eases Symptoms

Dancing helps slow the progression of motor and nonmotor symptoms and improves quality of life for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), new research shows.

Over 3 years, weekly participation in dance training classes “drastically” reduced the expected decline in motor function and significantly improved speech, tremors, balance, and stiffness, the researchers report.

Dance training also appeared to have benefits regarding cognition, hallucinations, depression, and anxiety.

“These findings strongly suggest the benefits of dance for people with PD as a supplement to a normal treatment regimen,” the investigators note.

Although the mechanism of benefit is unclear, dance training may help “train neural network nodes that helps either strengthen networks damaged or builds neural roadmaps that pass the damage,” study investigator Joseph DeSouza, PhD, principal investigator and associate professor, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada, told Medscape Medical News.

The study was published online July 7 in Brain Sciences.

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