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To determine whether community-based adapted tango improves spatial cognition and reduces disease severity in individuals with Parkinson's disease while controlling for social interaction.

January 1, 2013Journal of Motor BehaviorOpen Access

The Effects of Adapted Tango on Spatial Cognition and Disease Severity in Parkinson's Disease

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To determine whether community-based adapted tango improves spatial cognition and reduces disease severity in individuals with Parkinson's disease while controlling for social interaction.
Assigned 33 individuals with mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease (stage I–III) to either twenty 90-minute adapted tango classes (n = 24) or education sessions (n = 9) over 12 weeks.
Assessed disease severity, spatial cognition, balance, and fall incidence pre-intervention, post-intervention, and at a 10–12 week follow-up, with 23 tango and 8 education participants completing.
Tango participants achieved significantly greater improvements than education controls in disease severity (p = .008) and spatial cognition (p = .021).
Tango participants demonstrated significant gains in balance (p = .038) and executive function (p = .012), with benefits maintained at 10–12 weeks postintervention.

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Controlled trial demonstrates improved disease severity and spatial cognition in Parkinson's disease, suggesting structured multimodal exercise offers durable functional benefits.

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McKee et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dccaa698c6111533e541ac https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2013.834288

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Controlled trial demonstrates improved disease severity and spatial cognition in Parkinson's disease, suggesting structured multimodal exercise offers durable functional benefits.

The Effects of Adapted Tango on Spatial Cognition and Disease Severity in Parkinson's Disease

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