Overview

With understandable information - about health, injury prevention, and treatment of common dance-related problems - this handbook is literally a tour of the body from head to toe. Includes advice specific to dancers' well-being, such as body awareness and self-image, eating disorders, stress fractures, turn-out, damaged or painful knees, feet and toes; and the excellent five critical things to know and five great exercises for each part of the body at the end of each chapter. Profusely illustrated with drawings and radiographic images and enhanced photographs of stars of the Pennsylvania Ballet.

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Reviews

In straightforward language and personable style, this book is meant to be a guide to the realities of dance and how to navigate them. Excellent at summarizing current work and presenting further resources. Dance Medicine serves as a good introductory reference text. -- Journal of Dance Medicine (November 2012)

An accessible, practical, and comprehensive approach to understanding dance medicine science for the ballet dancer. A compact, quick reference for young dancers, it can easily fit into their dance bags. -- Journal of Dance Education (July 2012)

Author Information

Judith R. Peterson, MD, was attending physician for ten years to the Pennsylvania Ballet, treating many professional dancers and dance students at all stages of dance training. A member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the American Medical Association, she currently serves on the clinical medical faculty of The University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.

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