Movement quantity and quality: How do they relate to pain and disability in dancers?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This field-based study aimed to determine the association between pre-professional student dancers' movement quantity and quality with (i) pain severity and (ii) pain related disability.

Methods

Pre-professional female ballet and contemporary dance students (n = 52) participated in 4 time points of data collection over a 12-week university semester. At each time point dancers provided self-reported pain outcomes (Numerical Rating Scale as a measure of pain severity and Patient Specific Functional Scale as a measure of pain related disability) and wore a wearable sensor system. This system combined wearable sensors with previously developed machine learning models capable of capturing movement quantity and quality outcomes. A series of linear mixed models were appli

SUBMITTER: Hendry D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9119517 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature