Performing with Pain: Tools to Guide Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention for Professional Ballet Dancers

Background and Purpose: Professional dancers may suffer from unrecognized central pain problems since negative experiences with past injuries may increase the intensity of pain. Classification of injuries into nociceptive, neuropathic, and central/ nociplastic pain may improve injury management. The...

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Published inOrthopaedic physical therapy practice Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 197 - 201
Main Authors Aliberti, Ashley, Milidonis, Mary K, Long, Katherine L
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published La Crosse Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy 01.10.2020
Subjects
Ballet
Classification
Dance
Dancers & choreographers
Decision making
Injuries
Literature reviews
Orthopedics
Pain management
Physical therapists
Physical therapy
Population
Range of motion
Rehabilitation
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Summary:Background and Purpose: Professional dancers may suffer from unrecognized central pain problems since negative experiences with past injuries may increase the intensity of pain. Classification of injuries into nociceptive, neuropathic, and central/ nociplastic pain may improve injury management. The purpose of this review was to create a dance specific decision tool to screen for central/nociplastic pain. Methods: A literature review was conducted using PT Now, CINAHL, and PubMed. Key words included pain, ballet, dance, prevalence, incidence, pain management, pain rehabilitation, and dancer mentality. Findings: Results of the dance specific review were applied to existing pain classification models and dance specific interview questions were identified to assist physical therapists managing professional dance injuries. Clinical Relevance: Categorizing dance injuries using pain science models may better guide rehabilitation, including recognizing nociplastic pain that is likely more prevalent in dancers than expected by most clinicians. Conclusion: The review presents a novel dance-specific pain decision tool and pain questions for the categorization of ballet injuries.
ISSN:1532-0871