Help Young Ballet Dancers with Knee Injuries in Training

Yuexi Song

doi:10.54097/92jcpd97

Authors

Yuexi Song

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/92jcpd97

Keywords:

Ballet, A knee injury, Instrumental therapy

Abstract

The improvement of dance art standards has put forward higher requirements for dancers' biological and physical needs. The knee, as a key body part, may seriously affect the dancer's career and daily life once injured. Therefore, it is particularly important to design special auxiliary training equipment to protect the knee. Based on this, this paper summarizes the causes of knee injuries, reviews the measures taken by previous scholars to solve knee injuries, and introduces a training instrument to prevent knee injuries in young ballet dancers, which exercises leg muscles by providing resistance when the knee is bent, reduces knee pressure, and is equipped with a display to track training progress. Following the analysis and discussion section, two auxiliary training methods using the instrument are proposed to strengthen the dancers' abdominal core and hip muscle groups and improve the control and stability of the leg muscles. The results show that despite the increasing aesthetic and athletic demands of dance, the biological and physical needs of dancers must be carefully considered, and effective preventive measures must be developed.

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