Balance, Sensorimotor, and Cognitive Performance in Long-Year Expert Senior Ballroom Dancers

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Performance of expert dancers (ED) and a matched control group (CG) for selected tests covering cognitive, posture and balance, motor, and tactile domains. Participants of the ED group showed (a) higher scores in the RSPM (𝑧=−2.776, 𝑃=0.006), (b) shorter Up and go times (𝑧=−3.819, 𝑃≤0.001), (c) less errors in the Aiming test for the right hand (𝑧=−2.808, 𝑃=0.005), and (d) lower 2-Point-discrimination thresholds for the right index finger (𝑧=−2.434, 𝑃=0.015). Horizontal lines within the boxes represent the medians. Boxes show the top and bottom quartiles, and whiskers represent the minima and maxima within 1.5 interquartile range (IQR). Outliers (>3.0 IQR) are labeled as solid dots.

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