Medical Care and Screening The medical professional plays a significant role in not only treating and rehabilitating the injuries dancers incur, but also in preventing them. Dancers respond well to medical providers who respect both the aesthetics and intensity of dance. Physical therapists, athletic trainers, and other allied health professionals can initiate and facilitate screening sessions for dancers to help identify potential problems and prevent future injuries. They should be considered a natural part of a dancer's career and sources of insight into staying healthy.
A dancer should return after an injury only when clearance is granted by a health care professional. Clippinger, K. Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics , Howse, J. Dance Technique and Injury Prevention. Watkins, A. Solomon, R, J. Solomon, and SC Minton. Preventing Dance Injuries. For follow-up appointments, you can now self-schedule using MyChart. Ankle sprains, lower back spasms and hip joint injuries are among some of the most common dance injuries.
However, there is plenty that dancers can do to help prevent dance injuries during their practice and in day-to-day habits. The demanding nature of dance means that dancers can experience injury to a number of different areas of their bodies. Some of the most common dance injuries, however, are typically in the lower body, including the back, hips, feet and ankles.
Ankle sprains are one of the most common acute dance injuries. Often occurring as a result of overstretching the ankle ligaments by extending the joint beyond its normal range of motion. Particularly severe ankle sprains, or those left untreated and without rest, can cause tears in the ligaments within the joint.
Dancers with ankle sprains will experience pain on the inside and outside of their ankle, and in more severe cases, also experience swelling and visible bruising. Shin splints often occur as a result of placing stress on the leg, and usually causes pain and tenderness along the shin. This can sometimes occur through dancing on a hard surface, placing stress on the leg after a period of inactivity, or using improper technique.
Pain can occur along the inside of the ankle and extend under the foot, which can make the big toe feel stuck when pointing the feet. This injury is more common in dancers who are consistently using improper form or training too much. Tenderness and pain can be felt above the heel of the foot in those suffering from achilles tendonitis. This pain can often appear to reduce once warmed up, but can be aggravated by jumping or dancing en pointe.
Dancers may experience a snapping or popping noise in the hip joint and some tenderness around the area. Snapping hip is considered a long-term injury and treatment typically involves massaging, stretching and physical therapy centred around strengthening the hip and core. Cartilage is found in many areas of the body, but dancers are most likely to experience cartilage tears around the knees, particularly meniscus tears.
Achilles Tendonitis. Achilles tendonitis is an inflammation of the tendon in the back of the ankle that connects the prime mover for pointing to your foot. Trigger toe is another overuse injury that causes inflammation and damage to muscle that is active during pointing the big toe.
Ankle Impingement. Ankle impingement is the pinching of tissues at ankle tibia and talus at either the front or the back of the ankle. Snapping Hip. However, over time, iliotibial band IT band tightness and weakness of the outside of the hip can cause the snapping to become painful. Hip Impingement. Hip impingement can be caused by many different factors from arthritis, labral tear, stress fracture, muscle strain, snapping hip syndrome, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, to piriformis syndrome.
It is extremely common in dancers due to the imbalance between the amount of external rotation turn out they have compared to the amount of internal rotation turn in. The placement of repetitive forces on the patella, like through performing jumps or plies without proper form puts a dancer at increased risk.
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