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Health and fitness: thrown a curve: on conquering scoliosis.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Health and fitness: thrown a curve: on conquering scoliosis.(Wendy Whelan)

Article Excerpt
When New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan learned from her orthopedist that she had a fairly severe case of scoliosis, the news came as a complete surprise. She was 12 years old and had been complaining of a hamstring pull. "I had no idea what it meant," she says now of file diagnosis. "I thought I had a disease." Many young dancers, in fact, don't know they have scoliosis--a curvature and rotation of the spine that causes weakness and imbalance and affects two to three percent of the population, most commonly young girls--and discover their condition purely by accident. The good news is, as Ms. Whelan has so successfully demonstrated, that it need not be a hindrance to a...

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