TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wanke, Eileen M.
A1  - Arendt, Michael
A1  - Mill, Helmgard
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
T1  - Occupational accidents in professional dance with focus on gender differences
T2  - Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology
N2  - Background: Classical dance comprises gender specific movement tasks. There is a lack of studies which investigate work related traumatic injuries in terms of gender specific differences in detail.
Objective: To define gender related differences of occupational accidents.
Methods: Basis for the evaluation were occupational injuries of professional dancers from three (n = 785; f: n = 358, m: n = 427) state theatres.
Results: The incidence rate (0.36 per year) was higher in males (m: 0.45, f: 0.29). There were gender specific differences as to the localizations of injuries, particularly the spine region (m: 17.3%, f: 9.8%, p = 0.05) and ankle joint (m: 23.7%, f: 35.5%, p = 0.003). Compared to male dancers, females sustained more injuries resulting from extrinsic factors. Significant differences could specifically be observed with dance floors (m: 8.8%, f: 15.1%, p = 0.02). There were also significant gender differences observed with movement vocabulary.
Conclusion: The clearly defined gender specific movement activities in classical dance are reflected in occupational accidents sustained. Organisational structures as well as work environment represent a burden likewise to male and female dancers. The presented differences support the development of gender specific injury prevention measures.
KW  - Traumatic injury
KW  - Dancer
KW  - Ballet
KW  - Male
KW  - Female
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/33392
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-333924
SN  - 1745-6673
N1  - © 2013 Wanke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 8
IS  - 35
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -