BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: When the tango begins to play, Lidia Beltran shrugs off the Parkinson’s that plagues her, takes hold of her therapist and dances, her body fluid and her steps precise, as part of an innovative treatment programme in Buenos Aires. It is all about “thinking as if we were like we were before having it,” says 66-year-old Beltran.
Like her, some 200 patients have participated in tango workshops offered over the past 15 years at Ramos Mejia Hospital to study the impact of the dance on the symptoms of this incurable neurodegenerative disease. – Edrien Esteves/AFPTV/AFP
