Two dancers teamed up with fellow Hopkins master's students to create a smart toe pad and ankle band designed to help prevent ...

Beyond the bone structure of the feet, the musculature can be greatly impacted as well. Ballet dancers, more so than other ...

Barring debilitating pain, dancers typically can’t stop working because of aching or blistered feet. They face foot issues every ... Kathryn Boren, a corps de ballet member of American Ballet ...

Although all dancers were actively training and performing without limitation, nine of eleven claimed to experience mild ankle pain during activity ... of the ankle or foot.

"Ballet dancers are hard on their feet. But Howard warned they're not the only ones – and not paying attention to your pain can have major consequences. "If something's wrong with your foot ...

Dance is a rigorous sport as much ... Accidents in "The Nutcracker" are so common there are injuries named after the ballet. A nutcracker fracture is a foot fracture of the cuboid bone.

leaving the girls with "long-term injuries and PTSD," according to David Kim, the owner of Premier Ballet of Los Alamitos, where the girls were company dancers. "The outpouring of support has been ...

The first thing to consider is where your foot pain is located ... Sesamoiditis is a form of tendinitis, common with runners and ballet dancers. Near your big toe are two bones that are connected ...

By Gia Kourlas Harrison Ball, a principal at New York City Ballet, has tears in his ... who was promoted to the rank of principal dancer just last year, the injuries were too much.