Research uncovers how dancers experience and adapt to pain

A collaboration between Curtin School of Allied Health and the Curtin Institute for Computation was formed to monitor the movement in dancers to see what causes the most pain and how the dancers can change their routines to avoid this pain.

Ex ballet dancer and researcher Danica Hendry spoke to Fiona Bartholomaeus for On The Record about the struggles ballet dancers go through when they experience pain and the amazing findings which inform the recovery of athletes in other sports.

Ballet pain