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Article Excerpt
If you are a ballet dancer, you've no doubt learned to accept some level of chronic pain as a fact of life. It typically shows up in your knees, lower back, hips, and feet, which bear the brunt of long rehearsal hours. Instead of ignoring it, why not address the imbalances that contribute to it?
Ballet dancers spend a lot of time turned out, causing an imbalance between weak medial and lateral rotators, located in and around the hip, and a tight iliotibial (IT) band, which is a thick group of fibers running along the outside of the thigh. Yoga can strengthen weak muscles and elongate overly tight ones, as Alfonso Martin, principal dancer at Tulsa Ballet,...
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