Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers
Physical fitness is considered a major factor contributing to the maintenance of independent living and everyday competence. In line with this notion, it has been shown that several years of amateur dancing experience can exert beneficial effects not only on balance and posture but also on tactile,...
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| description | Physical fitness is considered a major factor contributing to the maintenance of independent living and everyday competence. In line with this notion, it has been shown that several years of amateur dancing experience can exert beneficial effects not only on balance and posture but also on tactile, motor, and cognitive functions in older people. This raises the question of whether an even more extensive schedule of dancing, including competitive tournaments, would further enhance these positive effects. We therefore assessed posture, balance, and reaction times, as well as motor, tactile, and cognitive performance in older expert ballroom dancers with several years of competitive experience. We found substantially better performance in the expert group than in the controls in terms of expertise-related domains like posture, balance, and reaction times. However, there was no generalization of positive effects to those domains that were found to be improved in amateur dancers, such as tactile and cognitive performance, suggesting that there might be an optimal range of intervention intensity to maintain health and independence throughout the human lifespan. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bf775cdf97e441c7909154d20259f9372025-02-03T01:09:44ZengWileyJournal of Aging Research2090-22122011-01-01201110.4061/2011/176709176709Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom DancersJan-Christoph Kattenstroth0Tobias Kalisch1Izabela Kolankowska2Hubert R. Dinse3Neural Plasticity Lab, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, GermanyDepartment of Neurology, BG-Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44789 Bochum, GermanyNeural Plasticity Lab, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, GermanyNeural Plasticity Lab, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, GermanyPhysical fitness is considered a major factor contributing to the maintenance of independent living and everyday competence. In line with this notion, it has been shown that several years of amateur dancing experience can exert beneficial effects not only on balance and posture but also on tactile, motor, and cognitive functions in older people. This raises the question of whether an even more extensive schedule of dancing, including competitive tournaments, would further enhance these positive effects. We therefore assessed posture, balance, and reaction times, as well as motor, tactile, and cognitive performance in older expert ballroom dancers with several years of competitive experience. We found substantially better performance in the expert group than in the controls in terms of expertise-related domains like posture, balance, and reaction times. However, there was no generalization of positive effects to those domains that were found to be improved in amateur dancers, such as tactile and cognitive performance, suggesting that there might be an optimal range of intervention intensity to maintain health and independence throughout the human lifespan.http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/176709 |
| spellingShingle | Jan-Christoph Kattenstroth Tobias Kalisch Izabela Kolankowska Hubert R. Dinse Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers Journal of Aging Research |
| title | Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers |
| title_full | Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers |
| title_fullStr | Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers |
| title_short | Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers |
| title_sort | balance sensorimotor and cognitive performance in long year expert senior ballroom dancers |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/176709 |
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