The Dance Injuries－A Survey on Students Majoring in Dance in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yi-Kuan Lee, 李奕寬
• Other Authors: Chih-Wen Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94657001044658741353

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系在職進修碩士班 === 92 === Abstract This study aims at understanding situation that the dance injuries of dance students in Taiwan. The subjects were students from dance classes of elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and university in Taiwan, 2002. The study was conducted by Dance Injuries Questionnaire Survey. There were 2417 subjects with 2258 returned and 2166 were responded. The content of the study included the background of the dance students, the types of dance、the types of injury、the causes of injury and the corporal sites of injury which due to dance students suffered injuries. Data were analyzed by frequencies distribution、percent and Chi-square, using SPSS 8.01 edition for windows software. The following conclusions were reached： 1. There were 86.3％ dance students who had injury. 2. There were 36.0％ dance students who suffered from injury between 16 and 20 years old. 3. The highest rate of injury for Folk Dance was 35.8％ for elementary students followed by 33.3％ for junior H.S. students. For Chinese Opera the highest rate of injuries were 34.2％ for senior H.S. students. For Modern Dance, university students had the highest rate at 29.2％. 4. The dance students’ major corporal sites of injury were: the ankle（29.1％）, the knee（15.7％）and the waist（14.2％）. 5. Most of the dance students’ types of injuries were muscle injuries（28.6％） and tendon injuries（17.8％）. 6. Most of the dance students’ causes of injuries were inadequate warm-up（20.6％）, over practice（13.0％） and incorrect technique（12.9％）.