2016 Dance Symposium: Dance Healthy through Life

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS COURSE. PLEASE EMAIL THE CME DEPARTMENT TO GET ADDED TO WAITING LIST. cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu

This course will focus on health maintenance throughout the multiple stages of a dancer's career.

Pediatric dancers often struggle with strength and flexibility imbalances as growth and puberty progress, predisposing them to injury. Pre-professional dancers may struggle with eating disorders, bone health issues and experimentation with substance use and abuse to maintain weight. Health maintenance can be challenging for professional-level dancers through their child-bearing years and into middle age and elderly years with early osteoarthritis onset. This course will also highlight how to train dancers to prevent joint degeneration and maintain health and fitness.

Target audience

This course is designed for primary care physicians, physical therapists, dance instructors and athletic trainers, as well as parents and dancers.

1. The unique issues surrounding pediatric dancers who are actively growing, pre-professional dancers including female athlete triad, substance use/abuse, and issues unique to professional dancers, including pregnancy, mental health and aging
2. Training dancers to prevent degenerative joint disease and maintenance of bone health throughout the life span
3. The multidisciplinary approach to the care of the dancer
4. Regenerative medicine treatment modalities in dance medicine
5. Dancer training and fitness to prevent dance injuries

$75.00

Refund Policy

Registration by credit card can be made at by clicking register button above. Registration by check (draft on a United States bank): please make payable to Boston Children’s Hospital and contact Lesley Niccolini at Lesley.niccolini@childrens.harvard.edu to discuss payment. Telephone or fax registration is not accepted. Registration with cash payment is not permitted. Upon receipt of your paid registration, an email confirmation from the Boston Children’s office will be sent to you. Be sure to include an email address that you check frequently. Your email address is used for critical information, including registration confirmation, evaluation and certificate.

Fifty-percent (50%) refunds will be issued for all cancellations received prior to the start of the course. Refund requests must be received by postal mail, email or telephone. “No shows” are subject to the full course fee, and no refunds will be issued once the conference has started.

APTA credits pending

Disclosure policy

Boston Children's Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children's may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Saturday, April 30, 2016