...Dance-Related Injury Causes Page Break Abstract In any physical activity, injuries are almost always inevitable. For dance, these injuries could be just as life threatening as those from contact sports, even though no one is constantly running after them. With this being said, there are many precautions in place to prevent these injuries. Why aren't there less people with no dance-related injuries? This study discovered the causes behind dance-related injuries. High school seniors and undergraduate students were participants of a one-on-one interview discussing their dance history, specifically the events that correlated with their past and current injuries. Two dancers have never experienced a dance-related injury and...
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...pirouettes. After the curtain came down on the final show, she couldn’t point her feet or raise up en pointe; her ankles wouldn’t allow it. Her foot felt like it was on backward. This is when Dr. Kathleen Bower ’11 was first introduced to the world of physical therapy— and was set on the path to become a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) graduate who would combine her love of movement with a passion for injury prevention. Dance injuries have been on the rise for more than a decade, with a 37% increase reported from 1991 to 2007 in a study by the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Feet are crunched, strained, sprained. Ankles are twisted, elbows are bumped and bruised, and arms are broken during falls. Dancers risk losing mobility with every jeté. When dancing en pointe, the average pressure on the shoe’s toe box is about 220 pounds per square inch. Some of the associated injuries can be career-ending. Bower was fortunate, though, and after months of physical therapy and a referral to a dance medicine specialist she was able to return to dance—something she’d loved ever since seeing “The Nutcracker” as a 3-year-old in Danville, California. “When you spend months in physical therapy yourself, you realize its importance,” Bower says. Dr. Kathleen Bower. Photo credit: Leigh Esty. In college at California State...
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...Nutritionists are becoming a normal part of many professional dance companies to provide much needed understanding and guidance to their dancers. Getting enough fuel to perform at their best is a balancing act for dancers. They need to eat enough to have energy, but at the same time avoid feeling bloated and heavy. Some strategies that sports dietitians are recommending to dancers to maintain strong healthful bodies are; maintain energy balance, plan meals strategically, promote brain-boosting foods, and emphasize fluid intake. Nowadays, it is not unusual for a training facility or ballet company to provide a lounge area for eating and refrigerators for food. Slowly but surely, the attitudes in ballet toward food are changing from those of old where dancers were expected to dance only and not eat. Dietitians are teaching dancers that food is their fuel and a their friend- not the enemy as is so widely believed in...
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...Meagan Kolakowski December 3, 2012 Dance Injury The Dancer’s Fracture, which is a fracture to the 5th metatarsal bone, is actually more common to dancers then you think. I never heard of this injury before so I was really interested and intrigued when I saw this on my card. Another name for this injury is Jones fracture. Signs and symptoms: When pressing on the outside of the foot, there will be tenderness at the base of 5th metatarsal. There may also be tenderness over a large area of the outside the foot. However, the main tenderness will be at the base of the 5th metatarsal. Typically, the blood supply and sensation to the foot is normal. It is determined at the exam if the patient can still move their foot to the outside (eversion of the foot). This is done by placing the foot in an everted position and asking them to maintain that position while applying some resistance. This allows the doctor to gain access of the injured tendons that evert the foot. Doing this usually creates some discomfort for the patient. However, they usually are able to perform the action. Other symptoms include pain, swelling, severe bruising, severe pain while walking, and/or complete immobility. Anatomy of the region: I believe the 5th metatarsal joint is a hinge joint because it is similar to the knee in the range of motion it has. Two of the major muscles that are in this region are the peroneus brevis tendon and the peroneus tertius tendon which connects right to the fifth...
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...accident. b) Suppose Hong Kong event organizer may be organizing a similar outdoor event in the future, so we should need to have a risk control manager to develop the risk management process for preventing fire accident. I would like to explain the 4 steps about risk management process. Identifying the risk: We may be organizing similar outdoor event in the future of Hong Kong, there are fire effect on stage and electronic dance music from bands in order to attract more audience to enjoy a fire and music night. In the event, may be occur fire accident to pure risks. There are natural disasters of rainstorm, fire and construction damage of stage collapse. Fire means smoking and wiring problem and short circuit of electronic music instrument and use colored theatrical powder can lead fire accident. Rainstorm can cause short circuit of electronic music instrument. Stage collapse means structure damage. When appear some of risks, we should find solutions to reduce fire accident happen. Others, if fire accident happened, arising to injury from people and instruments damage. Quantifying risk: We can list out a table for analysis the probability of happen as below: then figure Impact 0.01 to 0.33 = Low, 0.34 – 066 = Medium, 0.67 – 1.00 = High. Table 1 Risk Summary | Risk Category | Probability | Impact (1-4) | RMMM | Smoking | Fire | 0.5 | 0.5 | | Wiring problem | Fire | 0.5 | 0.5 | | Short circuit | Fire | 0.5 | 0.5 | | In this example (and assuming a...
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...Community and Public Health Nursing Reflection Community and public health nursing provide health education, care management and primary care to individuals and families who are members of vulnerable populations and high risk groups. Public health nurse integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire population with personal clinical understandings of the health and illness experiences of individuals and families within the population. Community and public nurse focus on the prevention of illness, injury or disability, the promotion of health and maintenance of the health of the populations, they work with communities, target health promotion and disease prevention, they act as teachers, counselors and plays an important role in preventing wide spread illness and disease. Community and public health nurses’ goal is to promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations through the delivery of personal health services to individuals, families, and groups, and also the prevention of disease and disability, to promote and protect the community as a whole. According to Stanhope & Lancaster (2012), nursing has numerous roles including identifying vulnerable individuals and families through outreach and case findings, encouraging vulnerable groups to obtain health services, developing programs that respond to their needs and teaching vulnerable individuals, families and groups strategies to prevent illness and promote health (pg. 728). My community family consists...
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...Sports Injuries While researching further into the major of Physical Therapy, there was a topic that kept resurfacing. That topic was adolescent sports injuries and why/how they occur. Injuries from sports participation are a substantial cause of hospitals visits and medical bills. Sport injuries are the second leading cause of ER visits for adolescents. As I dived deeper into researching this topic I came across scholarly articles though places such as JSTOR, Google scholar, and more through the library databases. One of my favorite articles that I used throughout the semester was Taft’s. Although this article might be slightly out-of-date I think the information is still respectable and still truthful to the current date. Timothy...
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...Community Assessment and Analysis of Tucson Estates Lizi Thomas, Sophyamma Roy, Lena Fincher, Julie Overland, & Camilla Okolo Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V September 30, 2012 Julie’s Intro The demographic boundaries of Tucson Estates are within the Tucson Mountain Park; mountains comprising of accessible hiking trails, and wildlife in which the retirees leave out food and water surround the community. Small areas of open desert are on either side of the retirement community. Adjacent to the retirement community are newer housing developments with retired residents, but is not a designated retirement community. This is both a geopolitical and phenomenological community. The geopolitical factors in the community are human made legal boundaries and retired people 55 years and older. “Geopolitical communities are formed by either natural or human-made boundaries. Human-made boundaries may be structural, political, or legal” (Smith, 2009, p. 400). This is also a phenomenological community because there are shared values within the group. “A sense of place emerges through the members' awareness of their experiences together. People in a phenomenological community have a group perspective that differentiates them from other groups” (Smith, 2009, p. 400). The people who live in this community share the same generation values, and have activities that caters to their age bracket. Additionally, they are all bound by the common goals of keeping their community safe and clean...
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...Cocoanut Grove The Cocoanut Grove was a restaurant and supper club located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The building was built in 1927 and was located near Park Square. The Grove, as it was called, had been very popular during the late 1920’s, but had come across hard times during the 1930’s. In the early years of World War II the restaurant became very popular again. In 1942, The Grove was the popular place to be and where everyone liked to hang out. The building was a single-story structure with a basement below. A bar, called the Melody Lounge, occupied the basement as well as the kitchen, freezers, and storage areas. Located on the first floor was a large dining room, a ballroom with a bandstand, and several bar areas separate from the ballroom. One of the features of the dining room was a retractable roof that allowed viewing of the moon and stars during the warmer months of operation. The main entrance was located on Piedmont Street and utilized a large revolving door. On Saturday, November 28, 1942, the Boston College football team had lost in an upset to Holy Cross College played at Fenway Park. A famous Hollywood western movie star, Buck Jones, was in attendance at the game with Boston Mayor Maurice Tobin. Buck was persuaded by movie agents to attend the Grove for dinner that night despite feeling reluctant due to illness. A busboy was ordered to fix a light bulb at the top of an artificial palm tree in the corner of the Melody Lounge at about 10:15pm. The bulb...
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...I S S N 1725 - 5767 Travel and drug use in Europe: a short review 1 THEMATIC PAPERS Travel and drug use in Europe: a short review Travel and drug use in Europe: a short review emcdda.europa.eu Contents 1. Introduction 2. Travelling and using drugs Young people Problem drug users 3. Examples of drug-related destinations 4. Prevalence of drug use among young travellers Young holidaymakers in Europe Young backpackers Young clubbers and partygoers 5. Risks associated with drug use while travelling Health risks Risk related to personal safety Legal risks Risks related to injecting drug use Risks to local communities 6. Potential for prevention interventions 7 Conclusions . Acknowledgements References 3 4 4 4 6 9 9 10 11 13 13 14 14 14 15 17 19 21 22 Travel and drug use in Europe: a short review emcdda.europa.eu 3 1. Introduction Recent decades have seen a growth in travel and tourism abroad because of cheap air fares and holiday packages. This has been accompanied by a relaxation of border controls, especially within parts of Europe participating in the Schengen Agreement. As some people may be more inclined to use illicit substances during holiday periods and some may even choose to travel to destinations that are associated with drug use — a phenomenon sometimes referred to as ‘drug tourism’ — this means that from a European drug policy perspective the issue of drug use and travel has become more important. This Thematic paper examines travellers...
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...BULLYING PROBLEM IN A NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL: AN EDUCATIONAL MANGER’S SOLUTION Abstract Bullying problem is pervasive and a serious concern for all stakeholders of education who desire to make school climate a safe haven. This paper is thus moved by this desire, to identify bullying and prevalence of bullying among secondary school students in Nigeria as a matter of urgent attention. The paper brings into concrete terms, bullying situation in Hibiscus College (pseudonym) a secondary school in Nigeria and prescribes a series of decision making process for solving the problem. These include, provision of helping services for schools; sensitization and capacity building of stakeholders in bullying detection and prevention; implementation of bully buster programme; and improvement of students’ level of compassion and empathy through empathy training. Introduction A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students enrolled in it. The main purpose of the school is to develop the student through knowledge acquisition, so that he/she may become a social being. By this, the student is expected to learn how to relate with fellow students, teachers and others in the school on the one hand, and to live in a harmonious way (by blending with societal values) in the society on the other hand. The school is also expected to be a place where students should feel safe and secure, and where they can count on being treated with respect. The reality, however, is that...
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...California Department of Education Reposted September 17, 2010 Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Public Schools Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve California Department of Education Reposted September 17, 2010 Publishing Information When the Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve was adopted by the California State Board of Education on January 12, 2005, the members of the State Board were the following: Ruth Green, President; Glee Johnson, Vice President; Ruth Bloom, Don Fisher, Ricky Gill, Reed Hastings, Joe Nuñez, Bonnie Reiss, Suzanne Tacheny, and Johnathan Williams. This publication was edited by Sheila Bruton and Faye Ong, working in cooperation with Dianne Wilson-Graham, Consultant, Professional Development and Curriculum Support Division. It was prepared for printing by the staff of CDE Press: the cover and interior design were created and prepared by Paul Lee; typesetting was done by Jeannette Reyes. It was published by the Department, 1430 N Street, Sacramento, CA 95814-5901, and was distributed under the provisions of the Library Distribution Act and Government Code Section 11096. © 2006 by the California Department of Education All rights reserved ISBN 978-0-8011-1605-6 Acknowledgments The following educators were appointed by Jack O’Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to assist in the development of the Physical Education Model Content...
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...Amy Heimbecher Social Responsibility Task 1 June 3, 2014 Social Responsibility Strategy Report Overview Radharani Yoga Sanctuary (RYS) is a brand-new, small business located in Portland, OR. Currently, the company has start up funding, is looking for a storefront and plans to open its doors within the next 6 months. RYS would like to offer the community yoga classes, meditation sessions, dance classes, community events, workshops, Yoga Teacher trainings, and socially responsible retail. Objectives The main business objective in opening the studio, is to maintain and run the studio based on yogic principles, while bringing in a profit. Living in harmony with self, community, and the planet is at the core of these principles. While the exchange of money for the ancient practice of yoga is relatively a new concept, in this modern day and age the majority of teachers need to make a living and require payment for their service. This correlates to the socially responsible business principle of “Triple Bottom Line”. Triple Bottom Line refers to focusing on three factors in business: people, planet, and profit. Leadership Considerations (People) Under the “People” category there are 2 main groups : Leadership and community. Leadership includes the individuals running the studio and community includes every person or organization that has a relationship with the studio. The owner of RYS is currently looking for a studio manager. Within the job profile, the owner...
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...Introduction: Vision.Ltd a long-term customer of our company just has a successful fiscal year and the CEO of Vision.Ltd announced a Year-End celebration party and hired our company for making the party plan. Since the party was held for the entire customers, stakeholders, suppliers and staffs of the company this is going to be a huge project and need to be carefully planned. If this project is a huge success tremendous value can be earned to our company and the company’s reputation can also be increased. The following content are the plan that we’ve created for the party of Vision.Ltd. Vision company event planning project: Task 3.1 Prepare project plans and establish the project organization: +Propose: To celebrate a successful year of working and become an opportunity for the staffs, managers and shareholders to get the chance to get to know each other in order to improve the working performance in the future. Also this party will be a friendly environment for the participants to socialize outside of work. Final goal of this event is to be the first premiere for the company’s annual end year staff meeting party. +Objectives: -Achieve at least 150 participants. -Gain as much positive comments from the guests as possible. -Create a friendly environment where the participants can socialize freely without limitation of ranks or positions. -Bring unique experiences for the participants. +Aims: -To make the party become one of the most successful and memorable party...
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...The African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network MANAGING BULLYING PROBLEMS IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: SOME COUNSELLING INTERVENTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION Oyaziwo Aluede Ambrose Alli University Abstract Bullying problem has remained pervasive and a going concern for all stakeholders of education who desire to make school climate a safe haven. This paper is moved by this desire, by bringing into context the meaning of bullying and prevalence of bullying around the globe. The paper further brings into perspective bullying situation in Nigeria and prescribes intervention for bullying prevention in schools. These include; provision of helping services for schools; sensitization and capacity building of stakeholders in bullying detection and prevention; implementation of bully buster programme; and improvement of students’ level of compassion and empathy through empathy training. Introduction A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students enrolled in it. The main purpose of the school is to develop the student through knowledge acquisition so that he/she may become a social being. By this, the student is expected to learn how to relate with fellow students, teachers and significant others in the school on the one hand, live in a harmonious way (by blending with societal values) in the society on the other hand. The school is also expected to be a place where students should feel safe and secure, and where they can count on being...
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