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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Dance medicine"”.
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The dancer in nature
… body of science has grown up around the art of dance. It includes study of a dancer's relationship to Newtonian physics, dance medicine, the role of the spine in balance, and the emerging study of the neuroscience of dance. The thesis integrates personal narrative and descriptions of dance …
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The Study of a Unique Athletic Population: Health Concerns, Interventions, and Prevention in Elite Ballet Dancers
Ballet dancers are a unique population of athletes in that, unlike other sports, their success strictly depends on both physical capabilities and aesthetic factors. While the physical demands of the performing sport are strenuous, ballet dancers are often required to exhibit a thin physique, …
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Physiological demands of performance in Classical Ballet and their relationships with injury and aesthetic components
… past century, resulting in poorly conditioned dancers who are prone to injury. The purpose of the thesis was to examine, through several inter-related studies, the demands of training and performance at professional level, and whether fitness levels of classical ballet dancers affect both …
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Determining muscle-tendon characteristics and function of stretch-shortening cycle performance in dancers
Dancers are aesthetic athletes with extraordinary skillsets defined by muscle-tendon unit (MTU) properties and stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) proficiency. Early on in athletic development, dancers are instructed to maintain aesthetic posture, wherein the hips are directly beneath the shoulders, …