When I first started dancing ballet, I quickly become accustomed to the occasional foot pain and soreness ... felt wrench in the day-to day-lives of dancers and non-dancers alike.

Although all dancers were actively training and performing without limitation, nine of eleven claimed to experience mild ankle pain during activity ... of the ankle or foot.

Dance makes extreme demands on the spine, especially in movements involving leg extension to the rear. [Photos by Jaye R. Phillips, courtesy of the Boston Ballet.] While acute traumatic injuries ...

The San Francisco Ballet ... dancers and company leadership.” Hummel’s suit alleges that Gibbs, a volunteer company physician since 1991, provided painkillers and injections for a hip injury ...

Of the 1521 complaints (19% first-time, 81% recurrent), ankle (22%), knee (21%), and foot (12% ... complaints amongst pre-professional ballet and contemporary dancers is high and significantly ...

Methods Medical attention injuries, time-loss injuries and dance exposure hours of 123 professional ballet dancers (women: n=66, age: 28.0±8.3 years; men: n=57, age: 27.9±8.5 years) were prospectively ...

INJURY-cursed North Melbourne defender Sam Wright has turned to the performing arts in a desperate bid to resurrect his football career. Wright, 27, and fellow Kangaroo Ben Jacobs, 25, have endured ...