What are common dance injuries? Acute injuries do occur in dance, but overuse injuries are the most common because of the repetitive nature of training and performance. Overuse injuries can occur in the bone, which leads to stress fractures, or in the tendon, which leads to tendinitis. The most common dance-related injuries include: Foot and ankle injuries: Excessive repetitive movements in dance can lead to inflammation (swelling) in the tendons of foot and ankle joints, resulting in tendinitis. Stress fractures in the foot are also very common. Ankle sprains are seen often in ballet dancers when they go âen pointeâ (on the tips of the toes) .
Definition of summation. 1  1 : the act or process of forming a sum : addition. 2  2 : sum, total. 3  3 : cumulative action or effect; especially : the process by which a sequence of stimuli that are individually inadequate to produce a response are cumulatively able to induce a nerve impulse.
Definition of amalgam. 1 : a mixture of different elements an amalgam of musical forms The crowd was an amalgam of young and old. 2 : an alloy of mercury with another metal that is solid or liquid at room temperature according to the proportion of mercury present and is used especially in making tooth cements.