Author(s)

Mao Haiting ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Chengyi College, Jimei University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

Dancers are particular athletes who experience a lot of unendurable injuries in process of pursuing aesthetic due to fastidious requirements of dance skills (Laws, 2005). In Latin dance, the requirement that male and female dancers wear prescribed heels is gradually formed in the historical process of dance development. Although, Latin dancers wearing heels can have a perfectly longer leg line, it increases the risk of ankle injuries. First, the article will elaborate on why Latin dancers insist on dancing in high heels from history and the psychological point of view and why heels increase the risk of dancer ankle injury. Next, the research will analyze how to reduce the risk of dancers' ankle injuries from different perspectives. The peroneus longus and peroneus brevis situated on the lateral side of the lower leg are essential muscles to protect ankles from injury (Batson, 2009). In the end, some professional methods of prevention injury will be proposed.

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Mao Haiting, The Relationship between High Heels and Ankle Injury in Latin Dance. Journal of Human Movement Science (2024) Vol. 5: 61-67. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jhms.2024.050109.

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