We Danced All Night to the Best Song Ever

Activity: DANCE

While dancing the body systems that one would depend on even more than in day to day life would be:

1. Respiratory
2. Circulatory
3. Sensory Awareness/Central Nervous

Although the having sufficient food and hydration (digestive system) and using the restroom is important before dancing, the three systems above must be working very hard while actually dancing.

Respiratory System: Since dancing involves constant, swift movement the respiratory system must be doing the best to make sure the dancer has enough oxygen to move. The respiratory system and the circulatory system work along side one another to ensure that air is coming into the body and then being brought throughout the rest of the body.

Circulatory System: While dancing all parts of the body are working extremely hard and therefore must be receiving enough nutrients and oxygen to continue. As the body is moving at varying speeds while doing intense movements more and more oxygen and nutrients are needed from the blood. After dancing for a while one’s heart will be beating hard as it was functioning at a more than normal speed to bring oxygen everywhere.

Sensory Awareness/Central Nervous: As the central nervous system deals with both comprehending surrounds and balance and movement it would be integral to dancing. While dancing along to music one must keep count of where in the exercise or music as well different movements at different times require the work of the frontal lobes of the cerebrum. Keeping oneself balanced while doing a releve in ballet or the moonwalk during Billie Jean is all because of the cerebellum.

Changes in body functions while/after dancing include:

• heart beating quickly (the heart needing to distribute blood throughout the body quickly)
• feeling tired (while dancing enzymatically produced is used up because of constant intense movement)
• increased appetite and thirst (since energy was used up while dancing the body requires more fluid and food to replenish it)

Chronic Asthma

Mainly Affects this System: Respiratory

Chronic asthma is a log term disease in which one's airways are more sensitive and breathing becomes difficult. 

When a person with asthma does intense exercise such as dance or is exposed to things like smoke or some animal hairs their airways react. The bronchioles and other airways of the respiratory system tighten and spasm leaving little room for air to pass through. As well airways could become inflamed and filled with an abundance of mucus again making it very difficult for air to pass through the trachea or bronchioles.

Generally when somebody with asthma does intense exercise including dance their airways will tighten, leaving little space for air to get through. 

When triggered symptoms of asthma include: 

• Wheezing
• Shortness of breath
• Chest Tightening
• Coughing

Even if somebody has asthma they should most definitely be exercising! 

Preventative measures can be taken to lower the severity of asthma while exercising would be warming up and cooling down gradually. Inhalers are a medicinal treatment that go directly to the lungs and work to reduce swelling, dry up mucus and all in all make airways less sensitive.