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Dance for Parkinson's Disease: Movement as Medicine,The Washington Post,July 3rd,2013
舞蹈之于帕金森,就像運動做治療，華盛頓郵報，2013年7月3日
The first thing you notice at Lucy Bowen McCauley's dance class for people with Parkinson's disease is the range of symptoms among the 15 people seated in a wide circle around the room.
你在Lucy Bowen McCauley的帕金森患者舞蹈班第一眼看到的是15個人在房間里圍城一圈坐著，
There is a guy with the severe hand tremors that I associate with the degenerative neurological disorder.
有一位患有神經衰退疾病，手顫很嚴重；
But there's also a woman who moves with a stiff,awkward gait,a woman confined to a wheelchair and another man who shuffles and suffer from a pronounced, repetitive twitch of his mouth.
一位女性動作僵硬，步態笨拙；一位坐在輪椅上；還有一位嘴不停地抽動并不斷重復說誰洗牌的男性。
And then the music starts,and it is clear these people are united by more than just the bad break they share.
然后音樂聲響起，明顯可以看出，他們自覺行動起來，組成一個整體。
Their brains—all our brains,actually--love music,rhythm and dance in some primal way that creates joy and nourishes the body.
他們的大腦實際上和我們的大腦是一樣的，是熱愛那些以自然的方式創造快樂并愉悅身心的音樂、節奏和舞蹈的。
Especially a body wracked by tremors or slowed by herky-jerky arms and legs.
尤其是在身體飽受摧殘或肢體變得僵硬不協調的時候。
In a 2009 review of the relatively scant medical literature on dance as therapy for Parkinson's,researchers found it as effective as other forms of exercise and noted additional advantages:
2009年有評論說，缺乏相關醫學文獻證明，舞蹈能對帕金森患者起到治療作用，但研究人員發現，舞蹈與其他形式的鍛煉比，同樣有效。此外，它還有一些與眾不同的優勢：
Music may serve as an external cue that facilitates movement; dance involves stopping and restarting movement,something that is difficult for some people with Parkinson's;
舞蹈是一項需要不停的中斷然后再開始的運動，而這些對帕金森患者來說很難，音樂剛好作為提示他們什么時候該停，什么時候該動的外部信號；
dance requires multitasking; and dance is social-- an activity that fosters relationships and keeps people with Parkinson's from withdrawing from communities.
舞蹈需要多重配合；此外，它還是一項社交活動，能培養人際關系，并使帕金森患者不脫離社區。
To end the class,they hold hands in a circle and,one by one, each bows theatrically to the person next to him.
在最后，他們手拉手站成一圈，一個接一個地相互給身邊的人鞠躬，
It is a wordless gesture of thanks,of empathy,of support that is impossible to miss.
這是一種無言的感謝、同情和支持，讓人難以忘卻。
Then they all bow once more,together, toward the center of the circle and head outside into the rain.Thank you.
然后，他們再一次一起向圓圈的中心鞠躬，之后，他們在雨中離開了。謝謝。
