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20 - Tango and Healing: A Clinical Research Perspective

from Part IV - Interdisciplinary Tango Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Madeleine E. Hackney  and
J. Lucas McKay
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

As health professionals, Madeleine E. Hackney and J. Lucas McKay demonstrate how widely tango reaches across disciplines. They offer a case study for how medical-research projects incorporate tango therapeutically. Hackney and McKay utilize tango for promoting health and preventing or changing declining conditions, and they illustrate how their current research applies “Adapted Tango” to improve motor and cognitive functions in individuals with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

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Tango and medical researchtango and Parkinson’s diseasetango and Alzheimer’s diseaseAdapted Tango
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 347 - 363
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Chauvigné, Léa A. S., Belyk, Michel, and Brown, Steven. “Taking Two to Tango: fMRI Analysis of Improvised Joint Action with Physical Contact.” PLoS One 13, no. 1 (January 2018): e0191098. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191098.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hackney, Madeleine E., Byers, Colleen, Butler, Gail et al. “Adapted Tango Improves Mobility, Motor-Cognitive Function, and Gait but Not Cognition in Older Adults in Independent Living.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 63, no. 10 (October 2015): 2105–2113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.13650.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hackney, Madeleine E., and Earhart, Gammon. “Effects of Dance on Movement Control in Parkinson’s Disease: A Comparison of Argentine Tango and American Ballroom.” Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 41, no. 6 (May 2009): 475–481. doi: https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-0362.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hackney, Madeleine E., and McKee, Kathleen. “Community-Based Adapted Tango Dancing for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and Older Adults.” Journal of Visualized Experiments 94 (December 2014): 52066. doi: https://doi.org/10.3791/52066.Google Scholar
Hackney, Madeleine E., Kantorovich, Svetlana, Levin, Rebecca, and Earhart, Gammon M.. “Effects of Tango on Functional Mobility in Parkinson’s Disease: A Preliminary Study.” Journal of Neurological Physical Therapy 31, no. 4 (December 2007): 173–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/NPT.0b013e31815ce78b.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kreutz, Gunter. “Does Partnered Dance Promote Health? The Case of Tango Argentino.” The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 128, no. 2 (March 2008): 79–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1466424007087805.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Low, Lee Fay, Lee Carroll, Sophie, Lev Merom, Dafna et al. “We Think You Can Dance! A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Dance for Nursing Home Residents with Moderate to Severe Dementia.” Complementary Therapies in Medicine 29 (December 2016): 42–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctim.2016.09.005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McKee, Kathleen E., and Hackney, Madeleine E.. “The Effects of Adapted Tango on Spatial Cognition and Disease Severity in Parkinson’s Disease.” Journal of Motor Behavior 45, no. 6 (2013): 519–529. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2013.834288.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sacco, Katiuscia, Cauda, Franco, Cerliani, Leonardo et al. “Motor Imagery of Walking Following Training in Locomotor Attention. The Effect of ‘the Tango Lesson’.” Neuroimage 32, no. 3 (September 2006): 1441–1449. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.05.018.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Manal, Zafar, Bozzorg, Ariyana, and Hackney, Madeleine E.. “Adapted Tango Improves Aspects of Participation in Older Adults versus Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease.” Disability and Rehabilitation 39, no. 22 (November 2017): 2294–2301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2016.1226405.Google Scholar

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