The motor coordination reasoning in acting dancer’s performance Improvement and Injury Prevention

Abstract

Many injuries that affect classical dancers are caused by compensations made to overcome anatomical limitations, which cause a proper coordination loss between the body segments. This lesions appearance, ultimately, results in people giving up on the practice even after different types of rehabilitation conventional treatments application. Given this reality, we argue for a physical therapy line focused on posture and movement re-education, based on Motor Coordination (MC), as described by Piret and Béziers, since we consider it has great potential not only to improve the dancers’ performance, but to prevent and treat injuries. So our goal in this article is to express our opinion on how MC principles can contribute to the classical ballet teaching-learning-training process and to the dancer’s preventive treatments and rehabilitation with regard to their lower limbs arrangement.