Conferences

Dancer Conference

The dancer conference is a forum for exploring many levels of dancer education including common injuries, self-care techniques, and learning how to incorporate a dance healthy perspective. The conference serves dancers of all ages, agility, and backgrounds.

Ultimately MDMF empowers the dancer attendees to leave with a renewed enthusiasm for self-preservation and a keen understanding of how to dance healthy. The overall structure of these conferences are a mixture of lecture, demonstrations and movement sessions offered during a single day.

This session is geared towards dancers, dance teachers, and dance coaches, but medical professionals are also invited to attend. Dancers of all ages and experiences are welcome.

What kinds of topics are covered at a conference?

  • How to achieve better turnout

  • Proper stretching technique

  • Strengthening techniques for leaps and turns

  • Balance training

  • Self-care techniques

 

Medical Conference

The medical conference offers continuing education to health care providers with hands-on learning, national guest lecturers, and tangible information for immediate application. We strive to provide our attendees the most current evidence based approach to dancer evaluation, surgical intervention, and rehabilitation.

This conference is designed for orthopedic surgeons, primary care physicians, pediatricians, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, chiropractors, occupational therapists and other providers who are interested in dance medicine.

Medical professionals who attended past conferences have greatly benefited from additional educational opportunities, one-on-one interaction with the dance community, and by watching dancers learn injury prevention techniques.

What kinds of topics are covered at a conference?

  • Musculoskeletal imaging related to the dancer

  • Evaluation and treatment of dance injuries

  • Strengthening techniques

  • Balance and proprioceptive techniques

  • Self care and clinical care treatment approaches


2023 Minnesota Dance Medicine Foundation Medical Conference will be at the Ames Center, Burnsville, MN on September 9th, 2023

Register HERE