The Beighton Score and Injury in Dancers: A Prospective Cohort Study.

CONCLUSIONS: The Beighton score can be utilised to identify dancers who may develop injury. Clinicians should consider the role of lumbar flexion in total Beighton score when identifying those dancers at risk of injury. Different injury thresholds in female and male dancers may aid injury management. PMID: 31094621 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Sport Rehabilitation - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Sport Rehabil Source Type: research