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- Title
Is there a relationship between female ballet injuries and maturation? A review.
- Authors
Rizzardo, Beth
- Abstract
Ballet dancers are a historically underrepresented cohort in the field of sports medicine. Although increasingly more research is being conducted on the dancing population, as of recent, many questions remain. Young, elite, female dancers have high rates of injury with longstanding adverse consequences though further research is required to better understand the etiology of injuries in this demographic. What is apparent is that the injury location is often the lower extremity and back, whereas the injury type is often stress fracture and overuse injury. Delays in menarche and menstrual irregularities are often present in female dancers which may impact skeletal development during the critical time of bone accrual and subsequently increase the risk of dancers acquiring injuries such as stress fractures. Issues of energy availability and training demands during adolescence may also influence injury patterns and require consideration. Determining the contributions of these various factors to the types of ballet injuries during adolescence is an important direction of future investigations. Furthermore, developing appropriate screening measures and effective treatment strategies is of value for maturing female ballet dancers.
- Subjects
DANCING injuries; BALLET dancers; HEALTH
- Publication
UBC Medical Journal, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1920-7425
- Publication type
Article