Our Courses

Introduction to Dance Medicine

The course is comprises of a series of online lectures and a residential weekend held at different locations across Europe. It provides the attendee with a multidisciplinary overview of the dancer and their training/performance workloads as well as learning about intrinsic and extrinsic injury risks. Experts will also lead practical discussions on physiotherapy, nonsurgical-medication-based, and hospital-based (surgical) treatment plans. There is also the opportunity to understand about different dance genres and talk with dancers about their experiences of being injured and going through rehabilitation.

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The course will cover

• the different genres that come under the umbrella term "dance" and the language dancers use to describe movement;

• the different environments of the company, independent, pre-professional and recreational dancer;

• epidemiology and aetiology of injuries;

• psychology of dance and the dancer; 

• intrinsic and extrinsic injury risks

• nonsurgical- medication based treatments;

• injury risks in particular populations: paediatric and older dancers;

• treating the dancer (self-treatment, physiotherapy, nonsurgical-medication-based, surgical treatments); 

• physiology of dance and the dancer.