Injury Incidence and Severity in Musical Theatre Dance Students: 5-year Prospective Study.
2021
Dance injury research has mainly focused on ballet and modern dance with
little data on musical theatre dancers. The purpose was to assess the
incidence and severity of injuries in a musical theatre dance college over a
5-year period; 198 pre-professional musical theatre dancers (3 cohorts on a
3-year training course) volunteered for the study; 21 students left the
course over the study period. Injury aetiology data were collected by an
in-house physiotherapy team. Differences between academic year and sex were
analysed using a Poisson distribution model; significant difference was set
at p≤0.05. In total, 913 injuries were recorded, and more injuries
occurred in academic year 1 than year 2 and 3. Overall injury incidence was
1.46 injuries per 1000 hours (95% CI 1.34, 1.56); incidence
significantly decreased between year 1, 2 and 3 (p<0.05). There was
no significant sex difference for incidence or severity. Most injuries were
classified as overuse (71% female, 67% male).
Pre-professional musical theatre dancers report a high proportion of lower
limb and overuse injuries comparable to other dance genres. Unlike other
studies on pre-professional dancers, injury incidence and severity decreased
with academic year, even though workload increased across the course.
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