Health Advice for Dancer's by a Dance Medicine Specialist Dr. Judith Peterson wants you to dance forever! This book will help you reach that goal. With understandable information-about health, injury prevention, and treatment of common dance-related problems-this handbook is literally a tour of the body from head to toe. Includes advice specific to dancers' well-being, such as body awareness and self-image, eating disorders, stress fractures, turn-out, damaged or painful knees, feet and toes; and the excellent five critical things to know and five great exercises for each part of the body at the end of each chapter. Profusely illustrated with drawings and radiographic images and enhanced by stunning photographs of stars of the Pennsylvania Pallet. Book jacket.
Dance Medicine: Head to Toe : A Dancer's Guide to Health