论文信息 - LOWER EXTREMITY FLEXIBILITY PATTERNS IN JAPANESE CLASSICAL BALLET DANCERS AND THEIR CORRELATION TO INJURY

LOWER EXTREMITY FLEXIBILITY PATTERNS IN JAPANESE CLASSICAL BALLET DANCERS AND THEIR CORRELATION TO INJURY

Many athletes who perform artistic movements such as synchronized swimming, rhythmic sports gymnastics, and figure skating commonly perform dance training to improve their performance level. Physical characteristics of ballet dancers would contain useful information for considering the training for those athletes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the physical characteristics of Japanese female ballet dancers especially for lower extremity flexibility patterns and their correlation to injury. From the results of this study, dancers with more than one injury showed higher flexibility in hip flexion and external rotation. It is suggested that higher flexibility by dance training would be one of the risk factors for injury as well as the important factors to improve performance level.

Mayumi Kuno-Mizumura | Misaki Yoshida | Ryoko Sugimoto | Ririko Seo

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