Dance Technique and Injury Prevention

ISBN-13: 9780878301041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str.

Justin Howse; Moira McCormack

Opis

Dance Technique and Injury Prevention has established itself as the key reference for everyone involved in dance injury and treatment, physical therapy, and dance instruction. In this newly revised and expanded edition, Dr Howse reviews the subject's five main areas: Anatomy and Physiology, Injuries (general), Injuries (specific) - Their Cause and Treatment, Strengthening Exercises, and Technical Faults and Anatomical Variations. The new set of strengthening exercises is a special feature of this edition. Comprehensively illustrated with more than 320 diagrams and photographs, Dance Technique and Injury Prevention 3/e deserves a place in every professional's library and treatment room.

Recenzje

"This unique and most valuable book provides an exemplary account of how the care of dancers should be pursued and can be strongly recommended to every dance teacher and therapist." -- Dancing Times
"By the surgeon considered the best injury man in Britain. His physiotherapist Shirley Hancock is equally renowned--Essential reading for any serious dancer." -- City Limits

O autorze

Justin Howse is Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Royal Ballet Schools, the Royal Academy of Dancing, the English National Ballet Company and School, and the RDC Physiotherapy Clinic, London. He is also Chairman of the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine.