Have you ever watched "Dancing with the Stars," the popular television show? Since the start of this show there have been a great number of foot and ankle injuries. The most common types of dance ...

Increasingly, young athletes are heading to the emergency room, but they're not coming in with cleats after a contact sport, they're wearing tap and ballet shoes after dance practice. We don't think ...

Introduction Contemporary dance students are at high risk for injuries; a yearly overall risk of ≥60% with lower-extremity injuries as the most predominant musculoskeletal injuries. Therefore, the ...

Background Ankle injuries are common injuries among pre-professional dancers. An overview of the incidence and risk factors is however lacking. Objective To examine the incidence and risk factors of ...

The Graham dancers let loose with a laundry of list of injuries that have befallen them. With a bit of a pained smile of their face, the Graham dancers let loose with a laundry of list of injuries ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...

Before Broadway can get up and running, its performers need to get back on their long-idled feet. Word of the Great White Way’s planned Sept. 14 reopening sent cast members of “Wicked” hustling to ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG)– Joining us on The Doctor Is In is Sports Medicine Physician Dr. Sarah McMullin, M.D. from USA Health to discuss dance injuries.

Between the white lab coat and the click of heels lies a shared focus: the body. Teresa Díaz Cardona knows this both personally and professionally. She is a physician specializing in physical medicine ...

A tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is often associated with a popping sound, a giving way and the nauseating feeling that something really bad just happened to one’s knee. When it happens ...