Tipos de pé de bailarinas clássicas e sua relação com algias e lesões musculoesqueléticas

Abstract

The ballet is a workout which requires a performance with the highest technical perfection. Its practices can lead to musculoskeletal changes and destabilize the functional equilibrium. This workout demands muscle strength standards and elevated amplitude of movements on the articulations of the hips and knees, as also the extreme control of the ankles and feet's articulations. This study had the purpose to evaluate the positioning of the classical ballerinas's feet in the different levels of practice of this modality, verify the indexes of pain and musculoskeletal injuries. It's about an exploratory, transversal and quantitative study. The sample was composed by 28 classical ballerinas from Santa Maria city who were between 8 and 30 years old. Data about pain's complaint and incidence of musculoskeletal injuries were collected, and the footprint was made through the podoscope. We observed that the predominant types of feet were the flat ones, both left as right feet. The adult ballerinas and the ones with more years of ballet practice, apart the age group, demonstrate more incidence of injuries as also more pain's complaint, what reflects the needing of a physiotherapist's accompaniment with the ballet team, in view of the modality's practice can lead to musculoskeletal injuries, especially in the inferior members.