Pain Prevalence Among Competitive International Dancers

摘要

Dance training is physically demanding and can cause injuries. Most dance injuries affect the low back, knee, and ankle/ foot.Continuing to dance through pain can lead to serious injury and may impose a limitation on training intensity or result in faulty technique, either of which may lead to suboptimal dance performance. Most previous studies have focused on pain experienced by ballet dancers.Only a couple of studies have documented pain experienced by male and female Standard and Latin (SS.L) dancers.14-15 Little research has been done to document areas of muscu-loskeletal stress among S&L dancers.