subject: Pointe Shoe Pain and The Risk of Ballet Injury [print this page] Pointe Shoe Pain and The Risk of Ballet Injury
Do you still experience pointe shoe pain? In a perfect world, you have learned about pointe shoe sizing, found exactly the right fit, have sewn your ribbons on properly, and were shown how to break in your pointe shoes. You started training when you were ten years old, worked up to three classes a week and started training in toe shoes somewhere between the age of twelve and thirteen. You have the perfect gel pads, toe spacers, toe lengths padding, and your dance studio has sprung floors.
So why then would you ever feel pain in pointe class?
If there is nothing amiss in your choice of ballet toe shoes, then you simply examine carefully, your classical technique, your dancing and rehearsing schedules, your nutrition, stress levels, and the quality of the sleep that you get.
Both younger dancers and adult ballet beginners would do well to develop this awareness.
Here is a very basic technical weakness that will perhaps not cause problems until you get into pointe shoes: sickling your foot, either outwards, or inwards. Firstly, the ankles should be rolling neither inwards nor outwards when you are standing, feet flat on the floor. If this stance is correct, when you press up or releve onto full pointe, the angle of your ankle should be help stable. You then end up on the platform of the shoe, with no lean toward the big or little toe.
Even the tiniest wavering from this correct ballet movement, can cause irritation in the entire ankle joint area and lead to ACHILLES TENDON INFLAMMATION. This is a painful condition that must be quickly addressed with ice and probably rest. If it is neglected, the Achilles tendon can degrade, will take longer to heal, and occasionally will need surgical repair.
Over-use, a common ballet problem. Before exams, recitals, and competitions, the more driven dancers will want to rehearse more than is good for them. It is up to a teacher or coach to announce "we will work on that tomorrow, go home and rest." After a certain point of exertion, repetition of a movement or enchainment will not improve it. This bad habit simply deludes a dancer that he or she is working hard.
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