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Is The Snap, Crackle, or Pop of Your Hips Cause For Alarm?

March 28, 2012 by Lauren Warnecke

Ah, the familiar sound of a snapping hip. Most dancers have experienced it at one time or another. Lauren takes us on a tour of the hip and what causes this popping sound, discusses the varieties of snapping hip, and lets you in on a ‘little secret’ that helped her get rid of the snap, crackle, and pop.

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Getting Knee Deep With Dr. Craig Westin

March 15, 2011 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

IMAGE A woman sitting holds her knee. Only her legs are shown. IMAGE

Dr. Craig Westin is an orthopedic surgeon for the Chicago Center for Orthopedics at Weiss Memorial Hospital and medical director of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet. He has worked extensively with dancers, skiiers, and is a team physician with the U.S. Figure Skating Team. Dr. Westin generously took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Dance Advantage about knee problems, proper alignment, pain, and injuries common to dancers.

Filed Under: Beyond the Bubble, Blog, Dancing, Health, Wellness & The Dancer's Body, Interviews, Technique Tagged With: ankle alignment, chicago, Chicago Center for Orthopedics, common knee injuries in dance, cross-training, dance injury, dance medicine, Dr. Craig Westin, external rotators, figure skating, ignoring an injury, ignoring pain, injuries, interview, interviews, Joffrey Ballet, knee alignment, knee injury, knee pressure, kneecap, orthopedics, pronation, Q&A, see a doctor, sickling, sports medicine, surgery, turnout

A FREE Download for Parents of Dancers

January 30, 2009 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

If you are a family that has welcomed dance into your household and your hearts, you may have questions and concerns about the welfare, health, and happiness of your child as they pursue their training. Download this free e-book for parents from a trusted source for quality information.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: books, education, injuries, parenting, pointe, ready for pointe, working with parents

Two Heads Are Better Than One

December 21, 2008 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

two women from opposite sides of the world who have a similar vision and purpose- that is to educate dancers and teachers, arming them with information to improve the quality of health and understanding of the body in dance education and practice.

Filed Under: Blog, Dance Media, Dancethropology, Technique Tagged With: blogs, H. Don't Miss These Websites!, injuries, the body

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Turnout – How to Nurture Your Turnout

October 10, 2008 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

Tune Up Your Turnout by Deborah Vogel

Too much tension in the musculature around the hip joint is often responsible for limiting the degree of turnout. Therefore, releasing that tension is key if you’d like to improve outward (and inward) rotation. Tight inward rotators inhibit outward rotation and visa versa. Dancers have varying methods which they use to accomplish release in the hips. Some use passive and lengthening stretches and others utilize props like balls to facilitate an opening within the joint.

Filed Under: Blog, Dance Library, Dance Media, Technique Tagged With: anatomy concepts, anatomy for dancers, awarenss, blogs, books, dance injury, deb vogel, health, improving turnout, increasing turnout, injuries, kinesiology, release tension, strengthening, stretching, the body, Tune Up Your Turnout, understanding the body

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Turnout – Part I

October 10, 2008 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

Although we sometime use the word turnout as a noun or a position (i.e. “Your turnout could be better.”), it is more appropriately thought of as an action, a verb. Because outward rotation is not the body’s natural state, the work does not stop once the position or desired degree of rotation has been attained. Instead, outward rotation of the hips requires continual action within the body, even when the rotation is held in a position (like ballet 5th).

Filed Under: Blog, Dance Library, History of Dance, Technique, Terminology Tagged With: Anatomy, ballet, bones, books, can I improve my turnout, dance, dance history, false turnout, Femur, function, health, increase, injuries, injury, muscles, outward rotation of the hip, recognizing improper turnout, rolling in, Sagittal plane, the body, turnout

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