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If you’ve been keeping up with our blog posts you’ve already learned that the foot and ankle is the most common body part injured in dancers. Maybe you haven’t sprained your ankle before, but you’ve had annoying pain at the back part of your ankle. We’re going to dig a little deeper into some of the common diagnoses associated with pain at the back part of your ankle specifically while your foot is in what we refer to as plantarflexed in physical therapy or what you may know as a demi-pointe...

It’s nearing time to sign up for next year’s classes, and you are considering adding a pointe class. But how do you know if you’re ready? Well, your ballet teacher this year feels you’re ready, you are 13 years old, you’ve been taking ballet classes for the past 4 years, and would love to continue dancing for many years to come and can’t wait to start pointe work. It should be as simple as that, right? Not exactly.  As demanding as dancing en pointe is, there are no standards or rules that...

So you’ve been dealing with this aggravating ache in your lower leg for the past few weeks now. It happens as soon as you work on any type of jumping or leaps in your classes or practice, but now it has started to hurt while walking around at school. This could really be a problem for your upcoming competition next weekend. What are you going to do? Does this sound familiar at all? Those aches and pains that don’t get better on their own in a week or two can be so frustrating. The longer you...