Conferences

2024 Minnesota Dance Medicine Foundation Conference
for dance educators
will be at Ballet Co.Laboratory in St. Paul, MN
on September 7th, 2024

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2024 Tentative Schedule

8:00 am Introduction - Brad Moser, MD

8:15 am Left Abdominals: The Key to Prevention and Corrections in Dance Technique - Maryann Johnson, PT

8:45 am Hip Injuries in Dancers: Pushing Limits - Brad Moser, MD

9:15 am Hip Strengthening - Alexa Horning, PT, DPT

9:45 am Tune-up Your Turn-Out - Sarah Petrich, PT, DPT, PRC, NCPT

10:15 am Break

10:30 am Periodization Training: Plan and Optimize Your Dance Season - Hanwen Wong, PT, DPT

11:00 am Ankle Injuries in the Dancer - Brad Moser, MD

11:30 am Return to Dance: Ankle Sprains and Instability - Joanna Theisen, PT, DPT

12:00 pm Perfecting Port de Bras - Sarah Petrich, PT, DPT, PRC, NCPT

12:30 pm Keynote - Zoe Henrot

1:00 pm Adjourn

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?