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Dancers are used to discomfort. Sore muscles after a long rehearsal, tired feet after hours of training, and general fatigue can all be normal parts of asking your body to adapt. But dancers can also become very good at normalizing pain. Not every ache means you're injured, and experiencing pain doesn't automatically mean something is damaged. But certain symptoms, especially when they are persistent, worsening, or repeatedly show up during the same movements are worth paying

As a parent of a dancer, it can be difficult to know where the line is between challenging your dancer to grow and asking their body to handle more than it is prepared for.

Knee pain is common in active teenagers, and it is sometimes dismissed as “growing pains.” But persistent knee pain deserves more attention than that. One of the most common causes of knee pain in adolescents is patellofemoral pain (PFP)—pain around or behind the kneecap. It can affect both teenagers and adults, and unfortunately, it doesn’t always disappear with age.

Gymnastics asks athletes to do things that few other sports demand. Gymnasts generate tremendous amounts of force, move through extreme ranges of motion, absorb repeated impacts, and perform highly technical skills that require strength, coordination, balance, flexibility, and body control.

Cheerleading demands an incredible combination of strength, power, flexibility, balance, coordination, and body control. Athletes may spend hours perfecting tumbling passes, jumps, stunts, and choreography, often performing highly technical movements at speed and under significant physical load.

Figure skating is one of the most demanding sports in the world. It combines incredible athleticism with artistry, requiring strength, power, balance, flexibility, endurance, and precision, all while performing on a thin blade moving across the ice.

How this recovery technique can help dancers and artistic athletes move and feel better.

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Messages like this strongly conflict with what we emphasize here at Performance Pilates & Rehab. We believe in empowering you to do theactivities you love. Plus, we understand that if we want to see injury rates go down in dancers we need to give them MORE support, not LESS!

Ice has long been used by dancers and athletes to recover after any performance related pain. However, ice research hit a new climax in 2014 putting the traditional RICE protocol on trial. It was found that traditional icing is in fact harming rather than helping our healing. Here are some facts about ice that might be surprising.