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Dietary supplement and medication use in professional and pre-professional dancers: widespread use but limited evidence of benefit—a systematic review [PDF]

Frontiers in Nutrition
IntroductionProfessional and pre-professional dancers experience exceptional physical demands and an increased risk of injuries and health concerns, often leading to the use of medication and dietary supplements.ObjectiveTo examine the prevalence of ...
Marian Vela-Andreu, Juan Jesús Montalvo-Alonso, Marta del Val-Manzano, José Alberto Martínez-Hortelano, Alberto Pérez-López   +4 more
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Beyond Aesthetics: A Matched‐Controlled Study of Static and Dynamic Foot Characteristics of 83 Professional Ballet Dancers [PDF]

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Background Professional ballet dancers are exposed to substantial repetitive loading of the lower extremities particularly the feet. The aesthetic and technical demands of ballet may lead to morphological adaptations overtime. This study aimed to compare
Tabea Arens, Mareike Sproll, Anja Hauschild, Christoph Kniewasser, Luisa Helfrich, Luisa Kosch, Astrid Zech   +6 more
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Dancers’ Body: the Examination of Health, Body Satisfaction, Body Attitudes, Eating Attitudes, and Self-esteem among Dancers

Tánc és Nevelés, 2021
Objective: to conduct research on health state, body satisfaction, eating disorders (EDs), body investments, and self-esteem among adult dancers. Methods: General Health Questionnaire, WHO Well-Being Index, Body Satisfaction Scale, Human Figure Drawing
Beáta Szászi, Pál Szabó
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Mental health in dance: A scoping review

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Research in dance psychology and mental health is rapidly growing. Yet, evidence in the field can seem dispersed due to few existing meta overviews that outline research in dance related to mental health.
Michelle Schachtler Dwarika, Heidi Marian Haraldsen   +1 more
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Aesthetic experience of dance performances [PDF]

Psihologija, 2012
In this study the aesthetic experience of dance performances is investigated. The study includes construction of an instrument for measuring the aesthetic experience of dance performances and an investigation of the structure of both dancers’ and ...
Vukadinović Maja, Marković Slobodan
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Femoroacetabular translation in female athletes and dancers assessed by dynamic hip ultrasonography

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2021
Objective To compare femoroacetabular (FA) translation between dancers and athletes with hip pain and between dancers with and without hip pain.Methods In this cross-sectional study, 171 female athletes and dancers with hip pain underwent dynamic hip ...
Dai Sugimoto, Pierre A D'Hemecourt, Charles P Scott, Patricia E Miller, Sarah S Jackson, Greggory P Kobelski, Kristin E Whitney, Andrea Stracciolini   +7 more
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Dancers’ heart: Cardiac screening in elite dancers [PDF]

European Journal of Sport Science, 2019
AbstractUsing electrocardiography and echocardiography, we screened elite men and women ballet dancers for abnormal cardiovascular conditions using an observation design with blinded clinical analysis of cardiac function tests. Fifty‐eight (females n = 33) elite professional ballet dancers (age: 26.0 ± 5.7 years, body mass index: 19.9 ± 2.2 kg/m2) with
George S. Metsios, Matthew Wyon, Kiran Patel, Nick Allen, Yiannis Koutedakis   +4 more
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Assessment of anorexia readiness syndrome and body image in female dancers from Poland and Germany

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017
Introduction:In recent years eating disorders have become an increasingly common problem, both in the media and in the scientific world, and the most dangerous form of these disorders is anorexia. Amongst patients with Anorexia Readiness Syndrome (ARS),
Marta Ołpińska-Lischka
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When Task Constraints Delimit Movement Strategy: Implications for Isolated Joint Training in Dancers

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020
Athletic performance is determined by numerous variables that cannot always be controlled or modified. Due to aesthetic requirements during sports such as dance, body alignment constrains possible movement solutions.
Paige E. Rice, Paige E. Rice, Sophia Nimphius, Sophia Nimphius   +3 more
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Effect of sports training programme on juvenile sports dancers motivation

Pedagogics, Psychology, Medical-Biological Problems of Physical Training and Sports, 2018
Lately, the researchers have paid more and more attention to the issues of sport motivation of exercising schoolchildren, but there are few scientific studies drawing the attention of researchers to  sports training programme effect on juvenile sports ...
B.A. Uspuriene, S.A. Sniras
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