Top 5 Concepts for Performer Injury Prevention 1) Prepare to Succeed Acrobat or Actor, Clown or Contortionist, Dancer or Diver – your body is your tool, your asset, and it’s the only one you have. It’s important to both improve and protect it to succeed long term. As a Performing Arts Physiotherapist, I like Performers to […]
Being injured is an attack to a dancer’s motivation. Often cropping up at the most inconvenient times, injury is never easy to digest. With the potential to jeopardize a dancer both mentally and physically, injury is the thorn in a dancer’s side that we wish we didn’t have to deal with.
June 7, 2012. That was the date of my injury. My first appointment at home on land was September 20, 2012. The first man I went to was an Ankle and Foot Specialist. He was great and I felt like he really listened to me. I was all, Yes this is going to be over and fixed so quick!
A split second. That is all it takes to change anything in your life. We were on night rehearsals onboard the ship. This means that you rehearse for the shows onboard from midnight to 8 am. This happens on most ships with aerial shows. The cast before you will continue doing the shows onboard while you are preparing to open your shows for the first time.
The digital age is a modern marvel granting us access to any and all information with a mere click of a mouse. However, after experiencing pain or injury, a quick search down the rabbit hole can spiral a person, especially someone like me, a self-diagnosed hypochondriac. Having been performing in Aladdin just shy of two years I started developing knee pain gradually due to the repetitive stress of the show on my body.
In The British Journal of Sports Medicine, there was a paper titled Is there a correlation between coaches leadership style and injuries in elite football teams? It looked into the correlation between different head coach leadership styles and the rate of injuries across 37 football (soccer) teams in 17 countries.
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