Disco Dancing Prescribed to Help Ease Rheumatism
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From Reuters
HONG KONG — Elderly people in the south Chinese city of Canton are swinging to pop music to relieve aches and pains on the advice of doctors who say disco dancing can help ease rheumatism, according to a Chinese newspaper.
The Nanfang Ribao, published in Canton, said a hospital organized disco classes this week as part of a therapy program. More than 300 people, most of them in their 60s and 70s, joined the class on the first day, the paper said.
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