@article{ref1,
title="Injury incidence and severity in musical theatre dance students: 5-year prospective study",
journal="International journal of sports medicine",
year="2021",
author="Stephens, Nicola and Nevill, Alan M. and Wyon, Matthew Alexander",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Dance injury research has mainly focused on ballet and modern dance with little data on musical theatre dancers. The purpose was to assess the incidence and severity of injuries in a musical theatre dance college over a 5-year period; 198 pre-professional musical theatre dancers (3 cohorts on a 3-year training course) volunteered for the study; 21 students left the course over the study period. Injury aetiology data were collected by an in-house physiotherapy team. Differences between academic year and sex were analysed using a Poisson distribution model; significant difference was set at p≤0.05. In total, 913 injuries were recorded, and more injuries occurred in academic year 1 than year 2 and 3. Overall injury incidence was 1.46 injuries per 1000 hours (95% CI 1.34, 1.56); incidence significantly decreased between year 1, 2 and 3 (p<0.05). There was no significant sex difference for incidence or severity. Most injuries were classified as overuse (71% female, 67% male). Pre-professional musical theatre dancers report a high proportion of lower limb and overuse injuries comparable to other dance genres. Unlike other studies on pre-professional dancers, injury incidence and severity decreased with academic year, even though workload increased across the course.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0172-4622",
doi="10.1055/a-1393-6151",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1393-6151"
}