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How much pain (killers) can you take.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
During her senior year of high school, Jen Thompson's shins started to hurt. She shrugged it off as shin splints, and started popping Advil to get through class. It turned out she had stress fractures in both of her tibia, which she didn't discover until she visited a doctor five months later. With the help of daily Advil, ice, and prescription strength painkiller Celebrex, she ignored the problem to make it through her last Nutcracker season with her local training company Southold Dance Theater in Indiana. "My body was pretty much numb," Thompson says, "but I could definitely feel the pain at the end of the day, which wasn't a good sign."

After the run, she had to...

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