Injury Profile of Hip-Hop Dancers
Injury Profile of Hip-Hop Dancers Olga Tjukov, MA, Tobias Engeroff, PhD, Lutz Vogt, PhD, Winfried Banzer, PhD, MD, and Daniel Niederer, PhD Abstract dancers only involved the lower extremi- Hip-hop is characterized by moves This study assessed the injury incidence, ties. In house, the lower extremities were such as bouncing the body, bending mechanisms, and associated potential risk affected most frequently, followed by the the knees, jumping, turning, twisting, factors for hip-hop, popping, locking, trunk. A total of 65.3% of the dancers isolated extremity movements, and an house, and breaking dance styles. Data experienced time loss, with a duration of extreme involvement of the torso. The were collected from June to November 12.7 ± 21.3 weeks. Breakers experience significantly more injuries than dancers of characteristics of popping are short 2015. The retrospective cohort study and fast muscle contractions, which included 146 dancers (female: N = 67; the other styles. Injury risk among dancers of all the styles studied can be considered are performed with different body age = 20 ± 4.2 years; males: N = 79; age parts to the rhythms of the music. The = 22.9 ± 5.8 years) who completed a low compared to soccer players, swim- mers, and long-distance runners. dancer looks robotic and can incorpo- questionnaire that collected data concern- 6 ing training hours, injuries, self-reported rate wave and illusion techniques. In the dance style locking, many basic injury causes, treatment, and recovery ompetitive dancing has been movements are executed with the time over the last 5 years. For the last 5 associated with a high risk arms and wrists, which are “locked” years, 52% (N = 76) of the dancers re- of injury.1 While injuries in ported 159 injuries and, in the year prior or paused to point.
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