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Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has several outpatient and urgent care centers throughout South Florida, including on-demand, virtual care.
Walk-in urgent care with no appointment needed.
Serving as your child's primary doctor's office.
Pediatric specialty consultations available closer to home.
A full range of comprehensive services all under one roof.
Connect with providers from the comfort of your own home.
With over 800 pediatric clinicians on staff, we’re dedicated to helping you connect with the right specialist for your needs.
We have expertise in treating children and educating families on hundreds of different conditions.
We use cutting-edge, specialized treatments and procedures to ensure the best care for your child.
Also known as: injury prevention and screening programs for dancers.
A comprehensive biomechanical motion analysis and physical evaluation of a dancer’s risk of injury. Designed to identify areas needing improvement to reduce the risk of injury and enhance performance.
A Dance Medicine professional performs a motion analysis and physical assessment of the dancer to identify deficits in strength, range of motion, balance and neuromuscular control that may increase the risk of injury. A summary of the results and training recommendation package is provided to the dancer.
No special preparation is needed for this test.
There is still a potential risk of injury occurring even after a patient has undergone dance injury prevention screening.
Reviewed by: Lauren Butler, PT, DPT, SCS
This page was last updated on: September 09, 2021 01:47 PM
Maintaining the health and wellbeing of the dancer through evidence based injury prevention and performance enhancing screenings, evaluations and training
This video discusses recovery techniques for dancers to relieve muscle tightness. This tip is brought to you by the Sports Health Program at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
Watch this video to view ways to help support and protect a growing dancer's back. This tip is brought to you by The Sports Health Program at Nicklaus Children's.
The Sports Health Program at Nicklaus Children's illustrates a warm up technique for dancers.
Foot alignment is an essential part of a dancer's technique. Watch this video tip provided by the Sports Health Program at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
Our Youth Athletic Development Program consists of Group Fitness Classes and Performance Training Sessions. The goal of this program is to maximize performance in a fun and positive environment while ensuring safe lifting techniques and creating a foundation of fitness for life Our Group Fitness Program includes two different classes.
Our Dance Medicine Program’s success lies in the expertise of our Dance Medicine Specialists. We have tailored our Dance Medicine Program to provide the most up to date and comprehensive medical and performance-based care to our dancers.
An ankle strain is the pulling or tearing of a tendon, which connects muscle to bone. A sprain is a similar problem only occurring with a ligament, which connects bone to bone in the ankle.
A sprain refers to an injury to a ligament, which are the bands of tissue that join bones to one another. And a strain refers to an injury to the muscles or tendons around the bones. When these injuries occur in the knee, they’re known as knee sprains and strains.
A pointe readiness screening is a physical screening designed to determine if the dancer has adequate strength, balance and range of motion to safely begin pointe.