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- Title
Inestabilidad del pie y tobillo en el baile flamenco.
- Authors
Vargas-Macías, Alfonso; Castillo López, José M.; Fernández Santos, Jorge del Rosario
- Abstract
The foot is one of the most susceptible areas to get injured in flamenco dancing, due to footwork, characteristics of footwear and heel height. The aim of this article is to analyze the execution of high speed footwork in foot and/or ankle instability for determining differences regarding dance shoes. Ten professional flamenco dancers have taken part in this investigation, 5 female dancers (29,6+4,7 years, 55+3,5 kg, 163,8+7,3 cm) and 5 male dancers (25,2+1,30 years, 61,4+7,2 kg, 171+3,1 cm). The participants had to repeat a dancing sequence consisting of 6 footworks for 15 s. This taping combined 4 different techniques. This sequence was repeated with both feet as many times as possible. The amount of footworks realized have been measured (female 171,2+7,40; male 180,6+11,8) as well as the percentage of cases carried out with ankle instability (female 9,2+1,3%; male 26,1+9,1%). Despite the female dance shoe has a higher heel, which is more associated to skin, toe and structural foot injuries, it is more stable than the flamenco boot. This is due to the necessary boot looseness to be put on/off, which causes a worse foot stability and more imbalance situations during the footwork.
- Subjects
FLAMENCO dancers; FOOTWEAR; BOOTS; TAP dancing; FLAMENCO
- Publication
Revista del Centro de Investigación Flamenco Telethusa, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 5, p40
- ISSN
1989-1628
- Publication type
Article