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You're extending your leg into the most beautiful developpe a la seconde when ... snap! You feel your hip pop ever so slightly. This sensation is so common in dancers [...]

From arabesques to acrobatic backbends, dancers are used to pushing their backs to extremes. While flexibility is beautiful onstage and is often a source of pride for dancers, it's important [...]

Dancers are often on their feet for up to 12 hours a day. Not surprisingly, that can lead to a lot of fatigue in the lower leg muscles. And when [...]

Have you ever felt pain in the back of your ankle while pointing your foot or rising onto releve? This could be a sign of an injury common in dancers, [...]

Last November, on opening night of American Ballet Theatre's City Center season, I charged into In the Upper Room's smoky fray. My war paint was a dusting of base and [...]

No matter how careful you are, sporadic overuse injuries are an occupational hazard of professional dance. 'Dance looks great because it's an unusual movement--it's not natural to the body, so [...]

Andrea Dawn Shelley navigates the controlled adagio of Spencer Gavin Hering's new work Ash with steady precision and understated femininity. No one would know she's struggled with knee pain most [...]

The Australian Ballet's artistic health team has become a reference worldwide, and not just because they got David Hallberg back onstage after his two-year struggle with injuries. Their results speak [...]

By the Sunday evening of a long convention weekend, you can expect to be thoroughly exhausted and a little sore. But you shouldn't leave the hotel ballroom actually hurt. Although [...]

Not all doctors get what dancers do. Even something as small as how a foot fits in a pointe shoe might not be familiar to a doctor without dance knowledge, [...]

DOCTORS, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND DANCERS SHARE THEIR HEALING TIPS. WITH OVER 600 MUSCLES, 206 bones and countless nerves, ligaments, and tendons in the body, it's almost impossible for dancers to [...]

College can be hard on the body. Between late-night rehearsals, carrying backpacks around hilly campuses and long, sedentary study sessions, it's tough for dancers to give their bodies the care [...]

Tim 'The Hebrew Hammer' Puller was mad. A Madison Square Garden referee had stopped his heavyweight fight with Lou Savarese three minutes into the second round, because the Hammer was [...]

When a dancer walks in the room it's obvious. They are unusually glowing and fit, wearing telltale comfortable clothes and sensible, if not fashion-forward shoes. Their body and posture stand [...]

I'm a Broadway dancer with a long second toe and the nail is always bruised. I had thought switching from pointe work to dancing in character shoes was the answer--I [...]

It's been three months since I pulled my hamstring while working extra hard on my flexibility in hot yoga. I've done physical therapy every week. But even though it's now [...]

I feel like a failure because I canceled a big competition after getting injured. I'd hoped that ending up in the finals might get me a position in a company. [...]

I had a two-month injury and thought it would make me miserable. Instead, I'm experiencing a huge wave of relief at being out. Should I feei guilty about not missing [...]

How could I get a bone bruise from wearing a boot for a stress fracture in my fifth metatarsal? It's taking forever to go away, and I can't dance full-out. [...]

Byline: PATRICK HEALY Daniel Curry, a dancer in the Broadway musical âSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,â was seriously injured during Thursday's performance at the Foxwoods Theater. To view this article [...]

For a BalletMet performance in April 2014, Carrie West danced principal roles in both Balanchine's Symphony in C and Edwaard Liang's Wunderland. But she had no idea this would lead [...]

Although you might not be getting as much exercise as usual if you're injured, don't scale back your calorie intake too far. According to a 2015 study, your body needs [...]

I did a musical number with lots of jumps on a tour stop without a sprung floor. Now my leg really hurts. An orthopedist told me I have shin splints [...]

I thought I'd be fine after undergoing successful surgery to repair a torn ankle ligament. Instead, I'm depressed and hopeless that I'm still not able to perform. My therapist tells [...]

I was just given a bone stimulator to help my stress fracture heal. The problem is, I can't dance while I'm using it. Will it really help, and why can't [...]

A doctor's tiny buzz saw was etching the path to freedom down Gabrielle Thurlow's casted foot. It had been several weeks since the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre dancer had rolled the [...]

Houston Ballet corps dancer Elise Judson was rehearsing an overhead lift that transitioned from one partner to another when she fell headfirst to the floor. Adrenaline immediately took over. 'But [...]

Dancers and musicians are predisposed to characteristic injuries that can be difficult to diagnose. Knowing how to evaluate, treat, and prevent disorders in this unique population will help you optimize [...]

Blisters can be the bane of a dancer's existence. When fluid fills the spaces between layers of skin, the pain can distract from your dancing. If you don't take care [...]

I'm finding it difficult to switch gears and go from one technique to another in my ballet company's rep. I've performed pieces by Tharp, Balanchine and Petipa in one season, [...]

It's the end of a tiring rehearsal, but you try that challenging jump one last time, and land sideways on your foot. Within minutes you begin to notice the signs [...]

NATALIA PARUZ came to the United States from Israel in 1989. She was 14, already a talented dancer, and she had been accepted as a student at the prestigious Alvin [...]

At the end of a long rehearsal day, it's not uncommon for your arches to ache, throb and cramp. Unfortunately, your soles are not the easiest places to ice. One [...]

My best friend is devastated from receiving a bad review. I applaud her for swearing off reading future reviews but wonder if she might have gained useful information if she [...]