@article{ref1,
title="Injury patterns in young, non-professional dancers",
journal="Journal of sports sciences",
year="2011",
author="Steinberg, Nili and Siev-Ner, Itzhak and Peleg, Smadar and Dar, Gali and Masharawi, Youssef and Zeev, Aviva and Hershkovitz, Israel",
volume="29",
number="1",
pages="47-54",
abstract="The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence and types of injuries in 1336 young, non-professional female dancers (age 8-16 years) who participated in a descriptive mixed (cross-sectional/ longitudinal) cohort study. Previous and current injuries were diagnosed and later classified into seven major categories. Our results show that 569 (42.6%) of the dancers examined manifested an injury. Advanced age and increased exposure to dance yielded an equivalent increase in the prevalence of injured girls: from 1 of 10 girls in the 8-year-old age cohort (mean = 1.05 per 1000 h) to 1 of 3 girls in the 14-year-old age cohort (mean = 1.25 per 1000 h). Time elapsing between first and second injuries decreased with age. Among the youngest group of dancers (8-9 years) the most common injury was tendonitis (41%), while in adolescent dancers (14-16 years) knee injuries became the leading cause of complaints (33%). We conclude that young, non-professional dancers are at high risk of injury. Dancers who had been injured in the past were at higher risk for re-injury. Tendonitis in the foot or ankle joint was a common injury among the youngest dancers, while knee injuries were common among adolescent dancers. A routine screening of this dancer population by an expert in dance medicine will reduce the risk for an injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0264-0414",
doi="10.1080/02640414.2010.521167",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2010.521167"
}