Dear Dancers,

 I am Kinnari Vora From Ahmedabad doing my internship in Physiotherapy. Myself being a bharatnatyam dancer, I could not resist relating the two fields. Hence my dissertation topic is "KNEE PROBLEMS IN DANCERS".
We all know how vulnerable is our knee joint due to various stress factors. Major amongst them are practicing on hard non-shock absorbing dance floor and lack of proper warm up exercises prior to dance practice.
So, kindly fill in the assessment form and oblige. After the survey appropriate Physiotherapy advice will be forwarded to you accordingly.

SPECIFIC NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOMED
 

My contact no. 09879039185, 07923231565

 ASSESSMENT FORM

• PERSONAL INFORMATION
• NAME:
• AGE : SEX:
• WEIGHT :
• ADDRESS:
•
• CONTACT NO.:
• OCCUPATION: Primary Occupation
Dance as a full time profession / hobby
• CHIEF COMPLAIN: knee

• MEDICAL HISTORY
• HISTORY OF : Degenerative disease (with chronic symptoms)
Trauma
Hypertension/diabetes/cardiac disease
Others
• CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS:
Disease : Arthritis/Sprain/Strain/Muscle pull/Stress fracture
Others
Investigatons : Radiological findings
Others
Treatment : Drugs:
Physiotherapy:
Orthosis:
• FAMILY HISTORY :
•
• DANCE HISTORY
• Dance type :
• Dance training started at what age :
• Since how many years do you practice dance :
• How many hours do you practise :
____hrs daily/____hrs____days per week

• DANCE FLOOR:
• A) Practice : wood/tiles/stone/land/others
• B) Performance : wood/stone/tiles/land
• Floor is shock absorbing or not

• EXERCISE :
• Do you exercise before dance practise : yes/no
• Time duration of warm up exercise : ______ minutes
• Frequency : regularly/occasionally
• Stretching : hamstrings
gastro-soleus
back extension
whole body extension
others
• Jumps : Standing
Sitting
• Aramandi :
• Other exersices :
• l
• DANCE POSTURE :
• Standing - basic posture: lordotic (yes/no)
• Dance basic posture : standing/aramandi/tribhangi/others
• Weight bearing :
 
 

• CLINICAL FINDINGS :
• Knee
• Tenderness
• Spasm
• Stiffness
• ROM

• MMT
• PAIN:
• Site : medial/lateral/retropatellar/diffused/others
• Type : dull aching/sharp shooting/throbbing/others
• Time : morning/evening/night/after dance/others
• Increasing factor :
• Decreasing factor: rest/hot water fomentation/
• analgesics/orthosis(knee cap)/others
• Posture : aramandi/cross legged sitting/squatting/
• others
• Adavus :
 
 

• ON EXAMINATION
• Posture :
• Body-built :
• Q-angle :
• Patellar tracking :
• Crepitus :
• Specific tests :
• Patello-femoral arthritis : clarks test/others
• Ligament injury :
• Meniscal injury :
• Others :

• Other Problems :

• Note:
 
 
 

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