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Introduction
Like high level sports, the flamenco dancers are an excellent laboratory to study the impact on the floor and certain trunk and arm movements. Material and Methods
271 Flamenco dancers were studied: 126 professionals and 145 students. Mean of 18 hours of practice weekly. A questionnaire was distributed to determine demographic data, hours of dancing…etc. We obtained Footprints (calculating Chippaux Index) and the Range Of Motion of spine extension (cambrée) and ankle dorsiflexion (plié). Statistical analysis of data were made with SPSS Program. And ANOVA test was applied to determine the significative statistical differences. Results
The 4 parts of the body most likely to be injured in Flamenco dancing are: - Feet.
- Neck-shoulders (trapezius region specially).
- Knee.
- Lumbar spine.
More frecquent diagnosis - Mialgies in the trapezius muscle.
- Metatarsalgia.
- Mechanical lumbalgia.
- Patellar Compression Syndrome.
Factors Involved - Sudden increase of hours devoted to dancing is related to the appearance of lumbar, knee, foot and leg injuries.
- Spine Extension is a factor of injuries: the analysis of individual clinical cases let us to relate the lack of flexibility in the spine extensions to cervical injuries, and also the hyperextension of the trunk (specially the dorsal area) with an increase of dorsal pains (13).
- Years of practice are related with foot injuries.
- Between students, Foot, ankle, and leg injuries are related to bone stress: periostitis, scafoiditis, ostheocondritis, ankle synovitis...
- Dancers with LEG and THIGH injuries have lower Chippaux Index than normal (similar to cavus foot).
Taiwan, August 2004
Calvo JB, Cabral L.
Departament of Anatomy-University of Alcala
Corpora PILATES Madrid
www.corporapilates.com Key Words: Flamenco Dancing, Dance injuries
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