A brand new addition to IU Well being’s rehabilitation companies offers injury-prevention screening, and bodily remedy for dancers, skaters, gymnasts and different performing artists and athletes.
By IU Well being Senior Journalist T.J. Banes, Tfender1@iuhealth.org
From the time they had been in diapers, they had been dancing. That’s how Korrie Corridor describes the fervour of her three daughters.
When accidents sidelined that keenness, Corridor turned to IU Well being’s Performing Arts Rehabilitation Program. Situated at 7411 N. Keystone Ave. the workplace opened up the primary of this yr and specializes within the care of efficiency accidents.
Corridor is the mom to Zoe York, 18, Lucy York, 17, and Ava York, 14. All three dance with Avon Colleges. The older two additionally carry out with Tenacity Dance specializing in hip-hop, jazz and lyrical motion. Final yr, Zoe York obtained rehabilitation companies from IU Well being bodily therapists after surgical procedure for a torn labrum in her hip.
“She is a senior in highschool and got here again higher than ever. I give all of the credit score to her perseverance and the data of her bodily therapist,” stated Corridor. Therapists within the Performing Arts Rehabilitation Program aren’t simply specifically skilled within the particular wants of their sufferers; many have additionally pursued these inventive passions.
Ava is working with bodily therapist Victoria Hyatt who has been with IU Well being since 2006. Like Ava, she started dancing at an early age and pursued her ardour on the Washington College of Ballet. She went on to obtain a Bachelor in Superb Arts from the College of Massachusetts. It was a kinesiology course that caught her curiosity in bodily remedy.
“I used to be fascinated by it and thought bodily remedy could be an important place to take my data of motion and now it’s wonderful to have it come full circle and be working with dancers,” stated Hyatt. Along with Hyatt, former dancer Carrie Gaerte additionally offers bodily remedy to performers.
At IU Well being Saxony bodily therapist Whitney Harrison works with gymnasts, and at IU Well being Methodist Medical Plaza bodily therapist Maren Dixon additionally works with dancers and gymnasts.
The latest IU Well being efficiency facility on Keystone Avenue contains an on-site dance studio with sprung flooring, a barre, and mirrors. Pilates can be included into the rehabilitation.
“We’re principally recreating the atmosphere a dancer would follow in so we are able to work on turns, jumps and leaps and all of the issues dancers have to get again to their craft,” stated Hyatt.
On a latest Thursday afternoon Corridor’s youngest daughter steadied her body on a pair of crutches as she arrived for remedy. In January Ava York underwent knee surgical procedure ensuing from Osteochondritis dissecans. The joint situation causes cartilage to die as a result of lack of ample blood move.
“The primary week she got here in for remedy in February she was nonetheless carrying a brace and was leaping off the desk in ache,” stated Corridor. On her latest go to, Ava labored with Hyatt on constructing energy, stability and vary of movement. Her unique restoration schedule was 16 weeks. Corridor stated her daughter is as decided and self-discipline with remedy as she is together with her dance.
“My women all breathe dance. That’s their self care,” stated Corridor. “There’s a whole lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into dance. Some individuals don’t see it as a sport so there aren’t trainers on the occasions like there are for different athletics. It’s each bit as athletic and these children need to heal from accidents like each different athlete,” she stated.
The Performing Arts Rehabilitation Program offers companies to a number of native dance corporations together with Butler College Ballet and Dance Kaleidoscope providing screening and restoration of accidents. With expertise in efficiency, the therapists perceive the phrases, circumstances and actions particular to their sufferers, stated Corridor.
As she positioned herself flat on the desk, Ava targeted on bending her knee. Not like different visits, she didn’t grimace in ache. She was additionally in a position to bear weight on her leg.
“I’m undoubtedly getting higher and I need to dance once more as quickly as attainable,” stated Ava.
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