Mattiussi, Adam M and Shaw, Joseph W and Williams, Sean and Price, Phil D and Brown, Derrick D and Cohen, Daniel D and Clark, Richard and Kelly, Shane and Retter, Greg and Pedlar, Charles and Tallent, Jamie (2021) Injury epidemiology in professional ballet: a five-season prospective study of 1596 medical attention injuries and 543 time-loss injuries. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55 (15). pp. 843-850. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103817
Mattiussi, Adam M and Shaw, Joseph W and Williams, Sean and Price, Phil D and Brown, Derrick D and Cohen, Daniel D and Clark, Richard and Kelly, Shane and Retter, Greg and Pedlar, Charles and Tallent, Jamie (2021) Injury epidemiology in professional ballet: a five-season prospective study of 1596 medical attention injuries and 543 time-loss injuries. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55 (15). pp. 843-850. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103817
Mattiussi, Adam M and Shaw, Joseph W and Williams, Sean and Price, Phil D and Brown, Derrick D and Cohen, Daniel D and Clark, Richard and Kelly, Shane and Retter, Greg and Pedlar, Charles and Tallent, Jamie (2021) Injury epidemiology in professional ballet: a five-season prospective study of 1596 medical attention injuries and 543 time-loss injuries. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55 (15). pp. 843-850. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103817
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Aetiology; Dance Medicine; Injury Surveillance |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2021 12:28 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:10 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/31620 |
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