“Tango en el Ramos:” A tango dance workshop for Parkinson's disease patients

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A group of neurologists at the Hospital Jose Maria Ramos Mejia in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been conducting a workshop on tango dance for Parkinson's Disease patients for the last 13 years, in collaboration with three professional tango teachers.  

Moving Along Editorial Board Member Sergio Rodriguez-Quiroga interviews neurologists Nélida Garretto and Tomoko Arakaki, as well as tango teachers Manuel Firmani, Verónica Litvak, and Laura Segade, about this workshop.

Supplementary material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy61CR2yd0w 
“The healing Hug,” World Parkinson Congress, Montreal 2013  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkFXFzHdWI&t=10s 
“Tango Trilogy,” Argentine Congress Of Neurology,  Buenos Aires Argentina 2020 

References

1. Sacheli MA, Neva JL, Lakhani B, Murray DK, Vafai N, Shahinfard E, English C, McCormick S, Dinelle K, Neilson N, McKenzie J, Schulzer M, McKenzie DC, Appel-Cresswell S, McKeown MJ, Boyd LA, Sossi V, Stoessl AJ. Exercise increases caudate dopamine release and ventral striatal activation in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 2019 Dec;34(12):1891-1900. doi: 10.1002/mds.27865. Epub 2019 Oct 4. PMID: 31584222. 
2. Earhart, G.M. Dance as therapy for individuals with Parkinson disease. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med, 2009. 45(2): p. 231-8. 
3. Rabinovich, D. Garretto N., Arakaki T., Desouza J. A high dose tango intervention for people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD). Advances in Integrative Medicine, 2001. 8(4): p.272-277 
4. Rodriguez-Quiroga, S.A., Rey RD., Arakaki T., Garretto N. Dramatic Improvement of Parkinsonism While Dancing Tango. Mov Disord Clin Pract, 2014. 1(4): p. 388-389. 

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