Kenny Sarah J, Stubbe Janine H, Swain Chris T V, Honrado Joshua, Hiller Claire E, Welsh Tom M, Liederbach Marijeanne J
Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Faculty of Arts, School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
J Dance Med Sci. 2025 Sep;29(3):131-141. doi: 10.1177/1089313X241288998. Epub 2024 Oct 11.
In 2012, the Standard Measures Consensus Initiative (SMCI) of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS) presented 6 recommendations regarding dance injury surveillance, definitions of injury and exposure, dance-specific screening, risk reduction strategies, and collaborative data management. The aim was to standardize risk factor measurement and injury reporting by researchers in dance medicine and science. Since then, numerous reports on the recording and reporting of injury data in sport and performing arts have been published.
IADMS commissioned SMCI to update the 2012 recommendations, a process that involved 3 stages: (1) current field experts were invited to join SMCI, (2) SMCI members reviewed recent and relevant sport and performing arts literature, then drafted, discussed, and revised section updates, (3) IADMS invited individuals representing diverse backgrounds in the IADMS community to critically review drafted updates. The final update serves as a bridge from the 6 recommendations in the 2012 report to the current state of evidence.
We continue to encourage use of dance injury surveillance systems and support that surveillance protocols be fit-for-purpose, and that failure to use clear and consistent injury definitions perpetuates a lack of rigor in dance injury research. Based on new evidence, we recommend that some aspects of injury surveillance be self-reported, that the choice of dance exposure measures be dependent on the research question, contextual factors, and type of injury/health problem(s) of interest, and that studies using dance-specific screening articulate specific objectives, validity, and reliability of each protocol.
Future studies should focus on the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to minimize injury risk to improve consistency and rigor in data collection and research reporting on the health and wellness of dancer populations, thus facilitating a future dance injury consensus statement similar to recent statements published for sports and circus arts.
2012年，国际舞蹈医学与科学协会（IADMS）的标准测量共识倡议（SMCI）就舞蹈损伤监测、损伤和暴露的定义、舞蹈特异性筛查、风险降低策略以及协作数据管理提出了6项建议。其目的是规范舞蹈医学与科学领域研究人员对风险因素的测量和损伤报告。自那时以来，已发表了许多关于体育和表演艺术中损伤数据记录与报告的报告。
IADMS委托SMCI更新2012年的建议，该过程包括3个阶段：（1）邀请当前领域专家加入SMCI；（2）SMCI成员查阅近期相关体育和表演艺术文献，然后起草、讨论并修订各部分更新内容；（3）IADMS邀请IADMS社区中代表不同背景的个人对起草的更新内容进行严格审查。最终更新内容成为从2012年报告中的6项建议到当前证据状态的桥梁。
我们继续鼓励使用舞蹈损伤监测系统，并支持监测方案应符合目的，且未能使用清晰一致的损伤定义会使舞蹈损伤研究缺乏严谨性。基于新证据，我们建议损伤监测的某些方面采用自我报告方式，舞蹈暴露测量方法的选择应取决于研究问题、背景因素以及感兴趣的损伤/健康问题类型，并且使用舞蹈特异性筛查的研究应阐明每个方案的具体目标、有效性和可靠性。
未来的研究应专注于制定、实施和评估将损伤风险降至最低的策略，以提高舞蹈人群健康与福祉数据收集和研究报告的一致性和严谨性，从而促进未来类似于近期为体育和马戏艺术发表的声明的舞蹈损伤共识声明。
