Dancers are clearly athletes in the degree to which sophisticated physical capacities are
required to perform at a high level. The standard complement of athletic attributes–muscular …

Historically, dance medicine and science has focused on the physical aspects rather than
the psychological aspects of dance injury. Psychological variables, however, have been …

Study Design Cohort study. Background Multiple operational definitions of injury exist in
dance research. The influence that these different injury definitions have on epidemiological …

Ballet dancers are high-performance athletes who are particularly susceptible to a wide
variety of musculoskeletal injuries. However, they are relatively understudied, and data on …

Objectives To examine risk factors for injury in pre-professional modern dancers. Design
With prospectively designed screening and injury surveillance, we evaluated four risk factors …

Background: The foot and ankle are often reported as the most common sites of injury in
professional ballet dancers; however, epidemiological research focusing on foot and ankle …

BACKGROUND: The physical demands placed on dancers put them at significant risk for
injury, with rates similar to ones sustained by athletes in sports at the same level of …

This study explored the perspectives of dancers and staff of the Dutch National Ballet,
regarding injury definition, injury risk factors, and preventive measures. We conducted two …

We analysed work-related musculoskeletal injuries (WMSI) in two modern dance companies
to determine whether injury rates decreased and patterns altered compared to previous 3-yr …

Background A large number of studies have found that the musculoskeletal injury of modern
and contemporary dancers has a high incidence. Previous publications have indicated that …