HLTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Stopwatch, Balance Disorder, Population Ageing
7 May 2018
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Benefits of Dance and movement therapies in treatment of parkinson’s
● Tango originated from argentina and helps with social interaction
● Argentine tango
○ Steps that challenge mobility
○ Rhythmic music with european, african, and caribbean influences
○ History fraught with political, moral, and social events
○ *helps ppl with parkinson’s Disease move better
● Parkinson’s disease
○ Neurodegenerative disease
■ With aging, US cases of PD will nearly double by 2040
○ Bradykinesia (slow movement), tremors, rigidity, postural instability
○ Degeneration starts well before symptoms start
○ Falls are extremely common → immobilization: muscle atrophy
■ 70% fall in 1 year
■ 50% fall again subsequent year
○ It’s treated imperfectly with medication, needs reform
○ PD results from producing much less dopamine in the substantia nigra pars
compacta of the basal ganglia
■ Movement timing and size, automaticity
● Exercise programs and targeted therapy programs can address balance issues
○ To improve balance exercise must include
■ Dynamic balance: running, walking...you lose your balance then regain it
■ New unexpected balance challenge to which one must adjust
● Your nervous system has to respond and learn that
● Participation in exercise is low in US
○ Ppl start but stop quickly
○ Most older adults in US are not active enough
■ PD activity levels ~50-30% lower
○ However, group social dance can motivate older adults to be active
● Dance: rehabilitative movement
○ Dance = social, partnered dances used therapeutically...connecting with ppl
○ Rehab population = aging, neurodegenerative
■ PD, older adults
■ Translatable to other neurodegenerative diseases as well
○ Many different dances globally, and different approaches
● Neural plasticity
○ Brain’s ability to modulate connections between brain cells, based on
experiences
■ Anatomical, molecular, genetic, structural, functional levels
■ Increased synthesis, release of neurotrophins and neurotransmitters
○ Challenge the brain with new activities and experiences
■ New synaptic connections
● Argentine tango adapted for PD may forget PD impairments
○ Bradykinesia
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Document Summary
Benefits of dance and movement therapies in treatment of parkinson"s. Tango originated from argentina and helps with social interaction. Rhythmic music with european, african, and caribbean influences. History fraught with political, moral, and social events. *helps ppl with parkinson"s disease move better. With aging, us cases of pd will nearly double by 2040. Bradykinesia (slow movement), tremors, rigidity, postural instability. Falls are extremely common immobilization: muscle atrophy. Pd results from producing much less dopamine in the substantia nigra pars compacta of the basal ganglia. Exercise programs and targeted therapy programs can address balance issues. Dynamic balance: running, walkingyou lose your balance then regain it. New unexpected balance challenge to which one must adjust. Your nervous system has to respond and learn that. Participation in exercise is low in us. Most older adults in us are not active enough. However, group social dance can motivate older adults to be active. Dance = social, partnered dances used therapeuticallyconnecting with ppl.
