Incidence of injuries at the foot of Dancer

Abstract

Dance is an activity that has many benefits at the physical, psychological and social level but in some occasions it could cause pathological situations in those persons who practice it. The technique in Classical dance is especially aggressive with their feet, as it requires muscle strength and precision in movements that are performed. Therefore injuries and affections that could suffer our dancers are interesting for health professionals. The purpose of this project is to try analyze the distribution of the injuries that suffered the dancer to reach a deeper knowledge of this situation getting a suitable treatment and acting in order to decrease its frequency, through an appropriate work of prevention. The study show us that classical ballet is practiced mostly by woman and they show larger number of podiatrist pathologies where the alterations highest prevalence were adductus hallux valgus (HAV) and hyperkeratosis (HQ) founding more skeletal muscle pathology than expected at the start of the study.