The association between body-built and injury occurrence in pre-professional ballet dancers – Separated analysis for the injured body-locations
This study was carried out on 24 students in their final year of ballet high-school. At the time of the research the participants were between 16 and 18 years old and had practiced ballet for 8 to 10 years at an intensity of 20 to 25 hours per week. The study was conducted by a group of 6 researchers from Croatia, Slovenia and the United States. To assess the association between body-built (ectomorphic, mesomorphic, or endomorphic) and injury occurrence, the researchers took anthropometric measurements such as body height and mass, triceps skinfold, subscapular skinfold, suprailiac skinfold, calf skinfold, biepicondylar breadth, bicondylar breadth, flexed arm circumference, and calf circumference; and at the end of the school year, data on injuries was collected. In this study, most of the ballet dancers were characterized as ectomorphic-mesomorphic, meaning that the mesomorphic component was dominant, while ectomorphism was greater compared to endomorphism (ectomorphism: 3.23 ± 0.54; ...