Screening and Educating the Adolescent Dancer

Title: Screening and Educating the Adolescent Dancer

On this episode, we interview Karen Moran, PT. Karen is the owner and founder of Fusion Arts Physical Therapy. Over the past 17 years, Karen has specialized in the treatment of dancers and performers and has worked backstage on numerous theater and musical theater productions! In addition, Karen has lectured on injury prevention to adolescent and teenage ballet dancers, as well as to touring musical theater companies. She has also been active in screening young dancers at various dance schools in the Los Angeles area.

Our mission: On Physiotherapy Performance Perspectives (PPP), Jenna and Marissa interview Physical Therapists who specialize in and love treating performing artists. In this monthly podcast, we aim to help performing artists gain a better understanding of how their body works, how to reduce risk of injury, what Physical Therapy for performing artists entails, and how to maximize performance potential.

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Music: Bret Autrey vs. Ella Fitzgerald - Puttin on the Ritz (Irving Berlin & Taco)

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