TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Injury incidence and severity in musical theatre dance students: 5-year prospective study
JO  - International journal of sports medicine
A1  - Stephens, Nicola
A1  - Nevill, Alan M.
A1  - Wyon, Matthew Alexander
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0172-4622
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1393-6151
ID  - ref1
ER  -