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  • 20 - Tango and Healing: A Clinical Research Perspective

  • from Part IV - Interdisciplinary Tango Studies
  • Edited by Kristin Wendland, Emory University, Atlanta, Kacey Link
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Tango
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 347-363

  • 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.