Dance in one of the oldest ways to express your feelings and till now still hasn't lost his popularity. In fact, it has become even more popular; even like competitive sport. Most dancers begin with competitions in early age. This leads to more trainings, which is reflected in more injuries and the amount of strain.
The purpose of the master’s thesis was to analyze and compare injuries between dancers from four different dance genres. These are currently one of the most well-liked dance genres: hip hop, Latin American and standard dance, acrobatic rock’n’roll and breakdance. Goals of master’s thesis were: a) to determine which are the most common injuries in mentioned dance genres, b) to determine the frequency of injuries and c) to determine the cumulative incidence of the severity of injuries. We were interested in how many hours per week dancers have trainings, in which competitive range they participate and how did the injury affect on their training process. The pattern included 251 dancers from different dancing clubs in Slovenia, aged between 15-30 years. Respondents answered the questionnaire about injuries, called OSTRC and general survey questionnaire. We processed the given information with Excel Microsoft 2010. We used descriptive statistics and frequency analyze. We separated the given information according to individual dance genre.
The findings have shown statistically significant differences in frequency of injuries between different dance genres. In hip hop and breakdance the most common injury is the area around the knee, while at acrobatic rock’n’roll the ankle and the back are the most exposed. At Latin American and standard dance the most common are back injuries.
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