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KMID : 0359420020200020221
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Korean Journal of Sports Medicine
2002 Volume.20 No. 2 p.221 ~ p.228
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Clinical Diagnosis and Related Factors for Ballet Cancer’s Painful Foot and Ankle
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Seo Kyung-Mook
Kim Don-Kyu
Song In-Sub
Seo Kyoung-Ho
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Abstract
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This study was designed to assess clinical characteristics and related factors from the painful foot & ankle of professional ballet dancers & students in ballet school. Total 32 ballet dancers who have foot & ankle pain were assessed by questionnaire, history taking, physical examination and confirmed by radiologic evaluation. We checked average training hour for ballet per day and per week, menstural irregularity and their body mass index for relation between pain and ballet intensity. There were 4 men and 28 women including 8 professional ballet dancer. Their average training years for ballet dance were 9.02±3.11 years and their average practice hour per week were 26.8±13.7 hours. Average body mass indices of men were 20.9±0.69㎡ and those of women were 17.3±2.16㎡. 6 cases (18.7%) of stress fracture, 4 cases (12.5%) of retrocalcaneal bursitis, 6 cases (18.7%) of Archiles tendinitis, 2 cases of Flexor hallucis longus tendinitis (6.3%), 1 case (3.2%) of post impingement syndrome and 17 cases (53.1%) of overuse injury were detected. We have found significant correlation between pain and body mass index (P<0.05). Due to repetitive and positional nature of classical ballet performance, dancers were more vulnerable to develop foot and ankle injuries.
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KEYWORD
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Ballet dancer, Pain, Ankle, Foot
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