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Dancing Injuries Physiotherapy

Dancing injuries occur primarily by its sport - dancing (and yes, we classify dance as a type of arts and sports combined). 

Dancing is really a sport which can have very high

• impact
  
• force

passing through muscles and joints, and yet, at the same time, it requires very high flexibility within the joints. Because of this combination, there tends to be a large range of dance injuries that is associated with dancing.

Dance injuries includes but is not limited to

• ankle sprains
• shin splints
• hip pain
  
• achilles tendinopathy
• knee pain
  
• back pain / low back pain
• wrist fractures / wrist sprains
• and a whole lot more
  

However, because of the associated body parts and movements, many other muscles, joints, soft tissues and ligaments can also be pulled or strained because of the dance routines, regimes and skills demanded.

Please mention that you have a dancing injury when you make a physiotherapy appointment with us, and we will assign you a senior physiotherapist with specific skills to help dancers with injuries.

You can expect a range or management techniques such as

• soft tissues management
• cold therapy to decrease swelling and pain
  
• manual therapy
  
• joint mobilization and manipulation
• possible customized splinting and/or taping as well as
  
• ultrasound therapy and radio-frequency Indiba physiotherapy to accelerate soft tissue healing
  
• electrotherapy for pain relie

to get you back onto the dance floor as soon as you can.

Some of the common injuries include the injuries sustained during an en pointe in ballet, and they include but are not limited to: