‘I guess you just have to deal with it’: pre-professional ballet dancers’ experiences of pain, injury, and social support
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pre-professional ballet dancers are at high risk for musculoskeletal injuries, some of which are not reported and are self-managed by dancers themselves. Understanding the decisions that adolescent dancers make related to their dancing, pain, and injuries is relatively under-researched. Sociocultural contexts and the presence of social support (or not) may influence decisions and experiences of elite adolescent ballet dancers regarding their pain and injury. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine pre-professional ballet dancers’ experiences of pain and injury in relation to the culture of ballet and social support. Twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with pre-professional dancers (11–19 years) enrolled in a summer intensive programme at a ballet school. Using reflexive thematic analysis, five themes were developed: ignoring injuries and making risky choices, expectation of perseverance, influence of dominant constructions of the ballet body, self-assessment and self-management, and the role of various individuals in injury management and prevention. Findings from this research provide greater understanding of the way sociocultural influence and social support shapes pre-professional ballet dancers’ experiences. Strategies to better support the health and wellness of this unique dancer population are recommended.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".