@article{ref1,
title="Injury epidemiology in pre-professional ballet dancers: a 5-year prospective cohort study",
journal="Physical therapy in sport",
year="2022",
author="Critchley, Meghan L. and Ferber, Reed and Pasanen, Kati and Kenny, Sarah J.",
volume="58",
number="",
pages="93-99",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Pre-professional ballet dancers are at high-risk for injury, with injury rates ranging from 1.4 to 4.7 injuries/1000 dance-hours. In dance injury epidemiology, multi-year studies are limited, and findings are inconsistent. Thus, the extent to which injury estimates range from year to year in a pre-professional ballet program is currently unknown. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to establish the extent and characteristics of injuries in pre-professional adolescent ballet dancers across five academic training years. <br><br>METHODS: 452 female and male pre-professional ballet dancers (median age, 15 years; range, 11-20 years) participated across five academic years at a vocational ballet school. Participants completed an online weekly injury questionnaire (OSTRC-Q) and self-reported dance hours questionnaire. <br><br>RESULTS: Questionnaire response was 91.4%. Depending on the definition of injury, yearly injury prevalence ranged from 32.1% (145/452; time-loss) to 67.4% (305/452; all-complaints) across the 5 years. Yearly injury rates ranged from 0.76 (95%CI: 0.66, 0.86; time-loss) to 2.54 (95%CI: 2.37, 2.73; all-complaints) per 1000 dance-hours. The ankle was the most reported injury location (range: 16-33%). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Injury prevalence and injury rate estimates remained high across five academic years in a pre-professional ballet population. Injury estimates were highest when an all-complaints definition was employed. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapy/Prevention, Aetiology/Harm, level 2b.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1466-853X",
doi="10.1016/j.ptsp.2022.10.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2022.10.001"
}