http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Dance is a beautiful form of expression, but it could be physically taxing and strenuous on the human body, particularly for children and adolescents. A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined dance-related injuries among children and adolescents 3 to 19 years of age from 1991 to 2007. During the 17-year study period, an estimated 113,000 children and adolescents were treated in U.S. emergency departments for dance-related injuries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dance-related-injuries-children-adolescents-video.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:50:04 EST news279819595 Heterosexual men pick up clues about other men's physical qualities from their dance moves just as heterosexual women do, say researchers at Northumbria University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-male-dancers-strength-men-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:16:44 EST news278594153 Young girls can dance their way to better mental health. Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing. This is shown in a study run by Anna Duberg, a physical therapist at Örebro University Hospital and a doctoral candidate at Örebro University in Sweden. Regular dance training can thereby be regarded as a strategy for preventing and treating low spirits and depression. Dance also brings enhanced self-esteem and a greater capacity to deal with everyday problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-boosts-young-girls-mental-health.html Health Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:29:41 EST news272629775 A dance intervention program improved the self-rated health of Swedish girls with internalizing problems, such as stress and psychosomatic symptoms, according to a report of a study published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-intervention-self-rated-health-girls-internalizing.html Pediatrics Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:01 EST news271954229 Experienced ballet spectators with no physical expertise in ballet showed enhanced muscle-specific motor responses when watching live ballet, according to a Mar. 21 report in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brains-frequent-spectators-motor-mirroring.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:00:01 EST news251557556 (AP) -- The two things that have brought Michael and Roslyn Lieb closer together couldn't be more different: Parkinson's disease and dance, one slowly taking away, the other giving back in ways they never imagined. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-parkinson-unusual-partnership.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:17:45 EST news242464634