The Origins of the Tamara Di Tella Method
TANGOLATES / TANGO-PILATES Special populations: grown adults, their postural and motor ailments.
April 8, 2009
WHO IS IT GOOD FOR?
Statistics indicate that 1 every 100 people over 60 years of age suffer from some kind of motor dysfunctions in general and Parkinson in particular. If we add to these numbers, people with postural problems, be them in the cervical area, or the lumbar zone, then the number goes up to 1 every 12 people over 60 years of age.
This makes a good 30 million people in countries such as the United States, 6 million in France, and 10 million people in Mexico. This gives us a pretty good idea of the magnitude of the problem and the huge number of people who are in need of some kind of rehabilitative solution to their problem.
TO UNDERSTAND THE CLIENTS
In order to design a set of movements, and recommend a series of exercises and routines for clients with motor or postural problems, we have to know how they feel. This getting to know the client, his/her ailments, the way he or she feels is essential to start working with them. Feelings are often not expressed because people may feel embarrassed, or because they themselves do not know how to put their feelings into words. This is specially the case in: 1) adult males; and 2) depressed males or females; 3) shy people in general.
The good news is: any movement, exercise, routine or method that can be performed without pain or discomfort on the part of the client is a good movement, exercise, routine and method. In other words, if the client can and likes to perform the movements and manifests that he or she enjoys the session and comes back for more sessions with visible signs of having enjoyed the movements, then we are in the right path and should continue. There is a general consensus among the medical community on this issue.
