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The tango is a dance rhythm, rather, came from Latin America.

Parkinson’s disease: tango improves the condition of patients

In Besancon Franche-Comté association Parkinson offers tango classes for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis conducted a study on the Argentine tango.
The study conducted by researchers took place in twenty dance lessons. At a time of course, different exercises were proposed, such as stretching, balance exercises and different dance steps.

After class, researchers have noted the condition of PD patients. Indeed, patients with Parkinson’s disease have better mobility and better balance after the tango.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease do better if they undergo deep brain stimulation surgery in addition to drug therapy, new research suggests.

New way of Parkinson’s treatment. A year after undergoing the procedure, the patients who had surgery reported a better quality of life and an improved ability to move and participate in daily activities, compared with those treated only with drugs, according to a study, published in the online edition of the April 29 issue of The Lancet Neurology. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Doctor, I come because I shake his hand. I know I have Parkinson … “That’s how many people are often directly reaching the office of a physician or a neurologist. It happens that the trembling of the hands, especially after a certain age, between 55 and 65, begins to worry.

The reality is that not all earthquakes are associated with Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 800,000 Argentines. There are drugs, for example, which can also cause the physical symptoms and have nothing to do with the disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Psychological problems are fairly common during the illness: often the type of depression, anxiety, irritability or sometimes ideas of persecution. The intellectual impairment is rare, and it should suggest other diagnoses (see other parkinsonian syndromes). Visual hallucinations occur occasionally, but almost always after many years of evolution or in some treatments, if again we must mention other diagnoses. Read the rest of this entry »

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease, rare before age 45, affecting 1.5% of the population over 65 years, reaching as many men as women. The fundamental lesion is the degeneration of a certain type of neurons: dopaminergic neurons.
These neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter substance of the nervous system. It occurs particularly in terms of neurons responsible for controlling body movements. There in Parkinson’s disease dopamine deficiency in the brain and this is manifested by movement disorders. Read the rest of this entry »