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Move aside laughter, dancing may be the real natural medicine for treating anxiety and chronic pain - and it could even help boost the spirits of Alzheimer's patients.
Starre Vartan, a prominent science writer and former-geologist writes for the Washington Post that dance helped her get through tough, lonely, times during the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts agree that the activity can have positive impacts on the brain.
While there have been known links between regular physical activity and improved mental health, experts say that there could be some further benefits for dancing.
Daily dancing has been linked to lessoning anxiety symptoms, management of chronic pain, and even an overall higher quality of life for people suffering from Alzheimer's.
Dancing can relieve feelings of anxiety, chronic pain and even help treat symptoms of schizophrenia, one study finds (file photo)
Vartan writes that during the pandemic, the illness of her father and then her own
