Physiotherapy for dancers is an area of physiotherapy that specialises in the prevention as well as management of dance related injuries.
We understand the high physical demand that dance requires as well as the importance of specific conditioning to match these requirements. The Healthy Body Company team offers dancers a variety of services including;
Pre-pointe assessment
Going en pointe is a very exciting time in a young dancer’s ballet career. An important step to making sure you are ready is having a pre-pointe assessment. This includes a detailed assessment looking at a dancers range of movement, strength and control of dance specific shoulder, trunk, hip, knee and foot movements.
Injury prevention screening
Through a specialised dance assessment we can look at technique of movement, flexibility as well as foot, trunk and turnout control.
Injury management
For all injuries with focus on return to dance as quickly as safely as possible.