Dance Medicine: Head to Toe : a Dancer's Guide to Health
- ISBN-10
- 0871273527
- ISBN-13
- 9780871273529
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 167
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton Book Company Pub
- Author
- Judith R. Peterson
Description
"With understandable information--about health, injury prevention, and treatment of common dance-related problems--this handbook is literally a tour of the body from head to toe. Includes advice specific to dancers' well-being, such as body awareness and self-image, eating disorders, stress fractures, turn-out, damaged or painful knees, feet and toes; and the excellent five critical things to know and five great exercises for each part of the body at the end of each chapter."--P. [4] of cover.
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Other editions
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- 1986-01-01
- 20 pages
- Paperback
- National Resource Centre for Dance University of Surrey
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