Shaw, Joseph W and Mattiussi, Adam M and Brown, Derrick D and Williams, Sean and Kelly, Shane and Springham, Matthew and Pedlar, Charles R and Tallent, Jamie (2021) Dance Exposure, Individual Characteristics, and Injury Risk over Five Seasons in a Professional Ballet Company. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 53 (11). pp. 2290-2297. DOI https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002725
Shaw, Joseph W and Mattiussi, Adam M and Brown, Derrick D and Williams, Sean and Kelly, Shane and Springham, Matthew and Pedlar, Charles R and Tallent, Jamie (2021) Dance Exposure, Individual Characteristics, and Injury Risk over Five Seasons in a Professional Ballet Company. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 53 (11). pp. 2290-2297. DOI https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002725
Shaw, Joseph W and Mattiussi, Adam M and Brown, Derrick D and Williams, Sean and Kelly, Shane and Springham, Matthew and Pedlar, Charles R and Tallent, Jamie (2021) Dance Exposure, Individual Characteristics, and Injury Risk over Five Seasons in a Professional Ballet Company. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 53 (11). pp. 2290-2297. DOI https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002725
Abstract
PURPOSE: To describe the relationships between dance exposure, dancer characteristics, and injury risk across five seasons in a professional ballet company. METHODS: Dance exposure time and clinician-reported time-loss and medical attention injury data were prospectively collected from 118 professional dancers of The Royal Ballet between 2015/16 and 2019/20. Cox proportional hazards and shared frailty models were fitted to overuse and traumatic injuries; individualized robust Z-scores for 7-day and 28-day accumulated exposure, and week-to-week change in exposure, age, sex, company rank, and injury history were included as time-varying covariates. RESULTS: Across 381,710 h of exposure, 1332 medical attention and 427 time-loss injuries were observed. Positive relationships were observed between week-to-week change in exposure and overuse time-loss (+1 Z-score hazard ratio (HR): 1.27, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06-1.53) and medical attention injury risk (+1 Z-score HR: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.06-1.28). A negative relationship was observed between 7-day accumulated exposure and overuse medical-attention injury risk (+1 Z-score HR: 0.74, 95% CI: 0.66-0.84). Overuse time-loss injury risk was greater in soloists compared to the corps de ballet (HR: 1.47, 95% CI: 1.01-2.15), and in dancers with a higher previous injury rate (+1 injury.1000 h-1 HR: 1.06, 95% CI: 1.02-1.10). Only age was associated with traumatic time-loss (+1-year HR: 1.05, 95% CI: 1.01-1.09) or medical attention injury risk (+1-year HR: 1.04, 95% CI: 1.01-1.07). CONCLUSION: Professional ballet companies should implement training principles such as periodization and progression, particularly in the case of senior-ranking dancers, older dancers, and dancers with high rates of previous injury. These findings provide a basis for future prospective investigations into specific causal injury pathways.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Humans; Cumulative Trauma Disorders; Proportional Hazards Models; Risk Factors; Prospective Studies; Seasons; Age Factors; Time Factors; Dancing; Adult; Workload; England; Female; Male; Occupational Injuries; Physical Conditioning, Human; Reinjuries |
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 12:50 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 20:54 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/31622 |
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