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Fitness training and its effect on musculoskeletal pain in profesional ballet dancers
Author(s) -
Ramel E.,
Thorsson O.,
Wollmer P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.575
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1600-0838
pISSN - 0905-7188
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0838.1997.tb00156.x
Subject(s) - ballet dancer , physical therapy , ballet , medicine , training (meteorology) , population , musculoskeletal pain , physical medicine and rehabilitation , threshold of pain , physical fitness , sports medicine , psychology , randomized controlled trial , dance , anesthesia , surgery , art , physics , literature , environmental health , meteorology
In a controlled, prospective, randomized study, half of the dancers in a professional ballet company were asked to do extra self‐administered fitness training, while the other half became the control group. The aim was to examine if the dancers in the training group would be able to keep up the extra training during a regular season and to examine its effect on their maximum oxygen uptake and on their self‐estimated musculoskeletal pain. The training group increased their oxygen uptake more than the control group. The self‐estimated functional inability because of pain (SEFIP) indicated significantly less pain the week after the premiére for the study population taken as a whole, but not for the two groups when considered separately. The training group claimed that the fitness training had helped them to cope with the psychological strain during rehearsals.