Injury epidemiology in professional ballet: a five-season prospective study of 1596 medical attention injuries and 543 time-loss injuries.
Br J Sports Med
; 55(15): 843-850, 2021 Aug.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To describe the incidence rate, severity, burden and aetiology of medical attention and time-loss injuries across five consecutive seasons at a professional ballet company.METHODS:
Medical attention injuries, time-loss injuries and dance exposure hours of 123 professional ballet dancers (women n=66, age 28.0±8.3 years; men n=57, age 27.9±8.5 years) were prospectively recorded between the 2015/2016 and 2019/2020 seasons.RESULTS:
The incidence rate (per 1000 hours) of medical attention injury was 3.9 (95% CI 3.3 to 4.4) for women and 3.1 (95% CI 2.6 to 3.5) for men. The incidence rate (per 1000 hours) of time-loss injury was 1.2 (95% CI 1.0 to 1.5) for women and 1.1 (95% CI 0.9 to 1.3) for men. First Soloists and Principals experienced between 2.0-2.2 additional medical attention injuries per 1000 hours and 0.9-1.1 additional time-loss injuries per 1000 hours compared with Apprentices (p≤0.025). Further, intraseason differences were observed in medical attention, but not time-loss, injury incidence rates with the highest incidence rates in early (August and September) and late (June) season months. Thirty-five per cent of time-loss injuries resulted in over 28 days of modified dance training. A greater percentage of time-loss injuries were classified as overuse (women 50%; men 51%) compared with traumatic (women 40%; men 41%).CONCLUSION:
This is the first study to report the incidence rate of medical attention and time-loss injuries in professional ballet dancers. Incidence rates differed across company ranks and months, which may inform targeted injury prevention strategies.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Dancing
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Absenteeism
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Occupational Injuries
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Br J Sports Med
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Bjsports-2020-103817
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