Publications by authors named "Yanan Dang"
The Efficacy of Physical Fitness Training on Dance Injury: A Systematic Review.
Sportverletz Sportschaden
August 2024
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- - The study examines how physical fitness training affects dance performance and injury rates, reviewing 10 relevant studies out of 2,450 articles found across multiple databases, focusing primarily on professional and pre-professional dancers.
- - Most dancers in the reviewed studies were female, aged 11 to 27, with participant numbers ranging from 5 to 62; the studies showed varying levels of evidence quality and risk of bias.
- - After undergoing physical fitness training, 80% of the studies noted positive outcomes in reducing injuries and related pain metrics, suggesting that enhancing physical fitness may help lower injury rates in dancers, although the overall evidence remains limited due to methodology concerns.
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- The study aimed to assess the frequency and severity of injuries among full-time Chinese pre-professional dancers through a weekly online survey conducted from September 2020 to July 2021.
- A total of 450 dancers reported 1157 injuries, with a prevalence of 64.9% and an incidence rate of 5.51 injuries per 1000 hours of dancing; most injuries were classified as minor to moderate severity.
- Findings indicated that female dancers faced a higher risk and severity of injuries compared to males, and university dancers experienced more injuries than adolescents, although the latter group suffered more moderate to severe injuries.
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- Previous injury recall methods in surveys often lead to inaccuracies and lack detail on injury causes, prompting the need for better tools.
- This study developed a remote weekly self-report tool to collect injury data from dance students over a period of 30 weeks.
- Results showed a 70.1% drop-out rate among participants, suggesting that improved reminder systems and teacher engagement could help increase response rates for future surveys.
One of the long-standing enigmas for lunar tectonic-thermal evolution is the spatiotemporal association of contractional wrinkle ridges and basaltic volcanism in a compressional regime. Here, we show that most of the 30 investigated volcanic (eruptive) centers are linked to contractional wrinkle ridges developed above preexisting basin basement-involved ring/rim normal faults. Based on the tectonic patterns associated with the basin formation and mass loading and considering that during the subsequent compression the stress was not purely isotropic, we hypothesize that tectonic inversion produced not only thrust faults but also reactivated structures with strike-slip and even extensional components, thus providing a valid mechanism for magma transport through fault planes during ridge faulting and folding of basaltic layers.
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- Higher levels of physical fitness are associated with better dance performance and fewer injuries, leading to a review of how fitness training impacts dance injury rates.
- A systematic search in various databases yielded 10 studies from 2450 articles, focusing on professional and pre-professional dancers, with sample sizes ranging from 5 to 62 participants, predominantly female, aged 11 to 27.
- After fitness training, 80% of the studies indicated significant improvements in injury rates and related factors, although the overall evidence is limited due to the quality of the study methodologies.
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- A study involving 2,086 full-time dance students in China revealed that injury prevalence dropped from 39.6% before the COVID-19 lockdown to 16.5% during the lockdown.
- Despite the drop in overall injuries, the severity of injuries increased, with moderate-to-severe injuries rising by 4.1% during the lockdown, while injuries to lower back, feet, and shoulders decreased.
- Factors such as fatigue and hours of sleep were linked to dance injuries; fatigue decreased and sleep increased during the lockdown, suggesting that improved rest may have contributed to the reduced injury rates.
Fit to Dance Survey: Elements of Lifestyle and Injury Incidence in Chinese Dancers.
Med Probl Perform Art
March 2020
The Fit to Dance survey has been conducted using primarily Western participants and has provided foundation data for other studies. The purpose of the current study was to replicate the Fit to Dance 2 survey focusing on features of health and injuries in pre-professional and professional Chinese dancers of different genres. The survey was translated into Chinese with several new and modified questions.
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