"I thought I had bad feet, but some of their feet are pretty bad and the injuries they've gone through ... and Jacobs performing exercises typically used to strengthen ballet dancers' feet and ankles.

Kelly Ripa overcame her nerves to balance en pointe for one minute with principle dancers from the American Ballet Theatre and ... you won’t notice my feet,” she joked.

As a seventh grader and aspiring ballerina, Dr. Darcy Lei wrote her first term paper, on the history of pointe shoes. “During that research I read about doctors that dancers mig ...

Methods Medical attention injuries, time-loss injuries and dance exposure hours of 123 professional ballet dancers (women: n=66, age: 28.0±8.3 years; men: n=57, age: 27.9±8.5 years) were prospectively ...