Fitness Testing to Determine Pointe Readiness in Ballet Dancers

Hewitt, Shayla; Mangum, Michael; Tyo, Brian; Nicks, Clayton

doi:10.12678/1089-313x.20.4.162

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“…1,2 For young ballet dancers, training en pointe is an exciting and important development. It exemplifies progression in their dance education 1,3,4 and dedication to the art. 3 Many young dancers perceive that their progression en pointe will be precipitous, 1 yet transition to pointe requires attaining numerous criteria to determine readiness.…”

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“…3 Many young dancers perceive that their progression en pointe will be precipitous, 1 yet transition to pointe requires attaining numerous criteria to determine readiness. These criteria include; chronological age [1][2][3][5][6][7][8] ; core, ankle, and pelvic stability 1,2,4,[6][7][8][9][10] ; core, lower limb, and ankle strength 1,2,4,[6][7][8][9][10] ; range of motion (ROM) 1,2,4,[6][7][8][9][10] ; flexibility of the foot and ankle (plantar flexion) 1,2,4,[6][7][8][9][10] ; balance 1,2,10 ; foot, ankle, and lower limb alignment 1,2,8,10 ; technique 2,…”

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Determining Pointe Readiness in Young Adolescent Female Dancers: A Systematic Review

Hough-Coles

Wyon

2022

j dance med sci

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Dancing en pointe is an integral aspect of ballet for female dancers and they start pointe training in young adolescence. The primary objective of this review was to investigate the screening tests used to determine pointe readiness in young adolescent female dancers, and the secondary objective was to determine the injuries associated with pointe training. The search engines Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were mined using medical subject heading terms “pointe,” “pointe readiness,” “injury,” “young,” “adolescent,” “female,” and “dancer,” and a manual search of relevant articles was conducted. The inclusion criteria were: females aged 8 to 20 years, pre-pointe, training en pointe, and pointe-related injury. The search strategy followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The following data were extracted; first author, year of publication, study design, participant size, mean age, testing, outcome, and general notes of each study. Risk of bias was evaluated using the Research Triangle Institute Item Bank (RTI-IB). Eight cross-sectional studies met the inclusion criteria. Results suggested that the topple, airplane, sauté, and relevé tests are statistically better determinants of pointe readiness than chronological age alone. Utilizing these methods alongside age, strength, body maturation, range of motion (ROM), and teacher evaluation could provide an all-round insight into a dancer’s readiness for pointe. However, the included studies had contradictory outcomes with regard to pointe-related injury and the review’s conclusions are limited by methodological design.

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Determining Pointe Readiness in Young Adolescent Female Dancers: A Systematic Review

Hough-Coles

Wyon

2022

j dance med sci

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“…36 The Airplane test has been described as a good test for determining pointe-readiness in pre-pointe ballet dancers especially children under 12 years of age. 21,[37][38] Similarly, the pirouette test as a recognized dancespecific balance test involves en dehors turns. Clarke et al 39 stated that, in performing a pirouette test, the dancer is required to start from and return to an open turned-out position of the feet with one foot crossed in front of the other (fourth position).…”

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Are the Current Balance Screening Tests in Dance Medicine Specific Enough for Tracking the Effectiveness of Balance-Related Injury Rehabilitation in Dancers? A Scoping Review

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Aims: This review sought to determine the extent to which balance screening tests in dance medicine are representative of dance movements and to determine if such tests can be used to empirically track the effectiveness of balance-related injury rehabilitations in dancers. Methods: A five-step scoping review method was used. Multiple databases and reference lists of identified studies were searched to obtain original research published between 2000 and 2020 that described the balance screening tests used for data collection. Articles were excluded if they were: qualitative studies, reviews, opinion papers, consensus statements, conference proceedings, or used questionnaires to collect balance performance data. Results: Fifteen of the 31 studies included in this review used different models of force platforms in their balance screenings. The Star Excursion Balance Tests (SEBT) and its variants were used by 12 studies, single-leg stance with eyes opened or eyes closed on stable versus unstable surfaces was used by six studies, Airplane test (n = 6 studies), Pirouette Test (n = 3 studies), Romberg and variants of modified Romberg Tests (n = 3 studies) were also used for balance screening. Conclusion: Currently, there is no specific screening test that can be used empirically to screen balance performances among dancers. None of the currently available balance screening tests are specific enough for tracking the effectiveness of balance-related injury rehabilitation or for making a return to dance decision after balance-related injury rehabilitation.

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“…Daneben galt es den nicht mit dem klassischen Tanz intensiv vertrauten Personen die Beratung bei der Frage der Eignung für den Spitzentanz zu erleichtern [18,24]. In weiteren Untersuchungen wurde überprüft, inwieweit die Einschätzungen der verantwortlichen Tanzpädagogen in ihrer subjektiven Einschätzung mit den Ergebnissen der Tests übereinstimmten und inwieweit sich im Spitzentanz fortgeschrittene Schülerinnen von Anfängerinnen in den Tests unterscheiden [12]. Inzwischen konnten aus der Literatur Empfehlungen zur Einschätzung einer Taug [19,34].…”

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“…Im Hobbytanz ist der Tanz mit Spitzenschuhen häufig erklärtes Ziel von Kindern und Jugendlichen sowie deren Eltern, wenn nicht sogar die (fragwürdige) motivationale Basis, überhaupt erst mit dem klassischen Tanz zu beginnen. Die Basis für den Spitzentanz stellen neben den anatomischen Voraussetzungeneine bis dahin erlernte sicher abrufbare, spezifische Tanztechnik in Kombinationen mit den erworbenen konditionellen und koordinativen Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten (vor allem Kraft, Koordination des Rumpfes und der unteren Extremität) dar [12,26,27]. Der Beginn, der zumeist in den Zeitraum der ohnehin sensiblen pubertären Phase fällt, stellt für alle Beteiligten (Eltern, Schülerinnen, Pädagogen) einen Meilenstein in der häufig bis dahin noch jungen Tanzkarriere dar.…”

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Tanz mit Spitzenschuhen: Besonderheiten, körperliche Voraussetzungen und Tauglichkeitskriterien

Wanke

Exner-Grave²

2017

Sportverletz Sportschaden

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Training with pointe shoes is an integral part of professional dance education and ambitious hobby dancing. Pointe shoes - developed more than hundred years ago and almost unaltered since then - are highly specific and strike a balance between aesthetics, function, protection, and health care. Therefore, pointe readiness should be tested prior to all dance training or career training. Medical specialists are often confronted with this issue. Specific anatomical dance technique-orientated general conditional and coordinative preconditions as well as dance-technical prerequisites must be met by pointe readiness tests in order to keep traumatic injuries or long-term damage at a minimum. In addition to a (training) history, medical counselling sessions have come to include various tests that enable a reliable decision for or against pointe work. This article suggests adequate testing procedures (STT TEST), taking account of professional dancing as well as hobby dancing.

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Fitness Testing to Determine Pointe Readiness in Ballet Dancers

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Determining Pointe Readiness in Young Adolescent Female Dancers: A Systematic Review

Determining Pointe Readiness in Young Adolescent Female Dancers: A Systematic Review

Are the Current Balance Screening Tests in Dance Medicine Specific Enough for Tracking the Effectiveness of Balance-Related Injury Rehabilitation in Dancers? A Scoping Review

Tanz mit Spitzenschuhen: Besonderheiten, körperliche Voraussetzungen und Tauglichkeitskriterien

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