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This page is my attempt to collect information for dancers to avoid or deal with dance injuries and other health information for dancers. If you have suggestions or sites to add send an email to me via the Feedback Form.

Web Resources

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Books

The Flexibility Manual
by Jean M. Peters, B.S., P.T. and Howard K. Peters, Jr., B.S., P.T.
ISBN: 0-9633896-0-2

Sports Kinetics. Inc.
725 Hillside Ave.
Berwyn, PA 19312-1702 USA

Both a spiral-bound book and accompanying video are available. Brief and easy-to-use, well illustrated. Aims to give the user a daily regimen (20 minutes) that keeps the body flexible and injury-free.

Other Books on Stretching
There are a number of references on stretching listed in the Stretching FAQ (listed above.) The FAQ author gives opinions on which have the most value.

Dancing Longer, Dancing Stronger: A Dancer's Guide to Improving Technique and Preventing Injury
by Andrea Watkins and Priscilla M. Clarkson
ISBN: 0-916622-98-3
Dance Horizons Book, Princeton Book Co., Publishers. Princeton, NJ, USA 1990

How to Dance Forever: Surviving Against the Odds
by Daniel Negrin
ISBN: 0-688-07479-0
Quill-William Morrow, NY USA 1988

From the book jacket: "Tricks, tips and philosophies that will help both the student and the professional dancer vault the 40 year barrier and live a long life in dance. A dance legend writes about diet, sex, dangers, healers, treatments, making a living, and most important, the heart-mind of the dancer who survives."

Other Information

Harkness Center for Dance Injuries

Hospital for Joint Diseases
301 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
PH: (212) 598 6022
FX: (212) 598-6249

Listed in a brochure as a teaching hospital of New York University School of Medicine and providing "Quality, Affordable Health Care for the Dance Community." I first heard of this group through a letter to the editor of the International Tap Association newsletter. The author described results of research on injuries to dancers in the different disciplines.

Disclaimer

[From the Dancing Longer, Dancing Stronger book]

The exercises suggested in this book are meant to be used by noninjured dancers as a complement to their regular schedule of dance technique classes. The exercises are not designed for the general public, nor are they meant to be used by injured dancers in self-prescribed treatment and injury rehabilitation programs. Dancers who are injured should see a physician. In addition, dancers are urged to carefully follow the exercise instructions, and listen to their bodies. If an exercise hurts, it should not be continued. Previous injuries or other preexisting factors may make an exercise inappropriate. Dancers should always check with their physician before starting this or any other exercise program.

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