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.

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.

As a seventh grader and aspiring ballerina, Dr. Darcy Lei wrote her first term paper, on the history of pointe shoes. “During that research I read about doctors that dancers mig ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...