Educating the Educator to Reduce Risk of Dance Student Injury

Educating the Educator to Reduce Risk of Dance Student Injury

A group of dance educators will attend two dance injury prevention workshops hosted by the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (HCDI), NYU Langone Medical Center, during which participants will learn strategies to help them train their students in safe ways and impart injury prevention information through their dance classes to their students. The educators will take pre- and post-workshop tests to assess knowledge and perceptions of dance medicine. Several weeks later, participants will take a follow-up survey to assess knowledge implementation and workshop effectiveness.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Teach dance to children in at least one private dance school
• Must be able to receive email and complete a survey online
• Must believe that students lack access to dance injury prevention resources
• Must teach at least one group of students that takes class from them a minimum of twice a week and must teach those students regularly in September and October, 2017.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under the Age of 18