Division of Sports Medicine

Common Dance Injuries

Dance Symposium

On May 5, Boston Children’s world-renowned experts will share their extensive knowledge on how to keep young dancers as healthy as possible. The Sports Medicine Division at Boston Children’s Hospital has been caring for professional and aspiring dancers for over 40 years. At the first-ever Dance Medicine Symposium, we will focus on preventing hip injuries in young dancers.

Young dancers: Preventing hip injuries
May 5, 2013 | 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Boston Children’s at Waltham
9 Hope Avenue, Waltham, MA 02453

Attendees will learn the following:

• early biomechanical evaluation of the young, growing dancer
• nutrition, bone health, mental health and general well being
• neuromuscular training and conditioning for injury prevention
• hip injury in the young dancer
• teaching and proper training
• rehabilitation of injury
• ultrasound evaluation of the hip and intervention protocols

Schedule

8:30 to 9 a.m. The young dancer: Overview and future of injury prevention
Lyle J. Micheli, MD

9 to 9:30 a.m. The clinical evaluation of the young dancer from the dance floor to the doctor’s office
Ellen T. Geminiani, MD

9:30 to 10 a.m. The biomechanical assessment of the young dancer: Designing injury prevention training protocols
Andrea Stracciolini, MD, and Pierre A. d’Hemecourt, MD, FACEP

10 to 10:30 a.m. Hip injuries in the young dancer
Bridget J. Quinn, MD

10:30 to 11 a.m. Hip ultrasound in the dancer
Pierre A. d’Hemecourt, MD, FACEP

11 to 11:30 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m. to noon Alternative treatments for the young dancer with pain
Cynthia J. Stein, MD, MPH and Peter Viteritti, MS, DC

Noon to 12:30 p.m. Bone health in the young dancer: The importance of resistance training
Kathryn E. Ackerman, MD, MPH

12:30 to 1 p.m. Proper training to prevent future hip injuries
Ruth Solomon

1 to 1:40 p.m. Rehabilitation of the dancer’s hip
Susan Kinney and Heather Southwick

1:50 to 2:30 p.m. Breakout sessions (participants choose one)

• Clinical examination of the young dancer with hip pain | Ellen T. Geminiani, MD, Bridget J. Quinn, MD, and Cynthia J. Stein, MD, MPH

• Ultrasound evaluation of the hip | Andrea Stracciolini, MD, and Pierre A. d’Hemecourt, MD, FACEP

• Rehabilitation of the young dancer with a hip injury | Sue Kinney, Heather Southwick, Ruth Solomon
   
• Chiropractic evaluation and treatment hip pain | Peter Viteritti, MS, DC
   

Close and questions
Evaluations
Price: $35

Registration

To register, please download and complete this form, and follow mailing instructions.

Inquiries

For more information, please contact Stacey Cobban at
617-355-6970 or by email at stacey.cobban@childrens.harvard.edu