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Dance Injuries
Discusses why dance injuries occur; looks at ways to prevent injuries through proper conditioning, nutrition, and psychological factors; describes the principles of injury care; and identifies musculoskeletal conditions common to dance, their prevention, evaluation, and management.
Dance and Dancers' Injuries
Dancing is an art form, as well as a sport. To reach the top, dancers have to go through punishing training regimes, pushing their bodies to the limit. This inevitably leads to injuries that need specialist treatment. This title is an informative and easy-to-read book, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, which should help physiotherapists, dancers, parents of dancers and dance teachers to understand the specific problems that dancers suffer. The book addresses: dancers and their injury problems; warming up and warming down; factors causing injury and affecting recovery; traumatic injuries - from first aid to rehabilitation; young dancers and injuries; overuse injuries; injuries to specific parts of the body; inside a dancer's mind from the therapist's view; and medical provision.
Prevention of Injuries in the Young Dancer
This practical resource discusses the numerous physical, psychological, and medical issues pertaining to the young dancer as they relate to injury prevention. Chapters on injury are arranged anatomically and cover etiology, diagnosis, treatment strategies, and rehabilitation. Additional chapters cover screening, nutrition, training technique, and the role of the physical therapist. This comprehensive text addresses the unique needs of these athletes and stresses how their bodies differ in significant ways from those of adults, requiring that their training and clinical management be overseen by specialized personnel. The book opens with a discussion of the epidemiology of injury in the young...
Injury Prevention and Management for Dancers
Dancers represent a unique athletic population. They can often be required to perform a variety of shows of differing intensity and styles: professional ballet dancers may perform up to 150 shows a year, across eighteen different productions. The dynamic and demanding nature of dance can however lead to injury, making injury prevention and management a vital part of dance training. Drawing on research and knowledge from both sports and dance medicine, this book will provide dance and healthcare professionals with a fundamental understanding of dance terminology, physiology and movement requirements, and how these relate to specific injuries commonly sustained in dance. Proposed models and st...
Foot and Ankle Injuries in Dance
Ballet is an exquisitely sophisticated and elegant art form. However its seeming ease and gracefulness belie the underlying physical stress. Much of a dancer's ability is reliant on favorable anatomy, strength and flexibility. Their foot mechanics, training and performing techniques are unique and thus they present with particular injury patterns. The following chapters aim to address these differences and provide an approach to assessing and treating foot and ankle injuries in the ballet dancer.
Essential Dance Medicine
Groundbreaking and long overdue, Essential Dance Medicine is a unique text designed to help medical professionals learn the presentations, differential diagnoses and available treatment options for common dance injuries. As different types of dance have evolved, so have their related injuries. This novel text explains the underlying principles associated with correct ballet, modern and ethnic dance movements to better understand the pathophysiology and mechanism of action for the injuries described. It provides further insight by elucidating common errors and compensations dancers often make in an effort to achieve correct positioning and technique. Describing different types of dance injuri...
The Injured Dancer
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