I wondered if anyone could help me. My partner was at an arts ed school doing full time ballet from the age of about 7-16. Unfortunately a knee injury forced her to stop dancing and she moved into other areas of performance - specialising in physical theatre. However, she has retained many of the physical characteristics of a ballet dancer: very strong legs, feet and back etc
She's now about 50 yrs old and over the last year has started to experience chronic pain in her lower lumbar area, some sciatica and pain in the groin - it seems to move around.
Now, of course, this may have nothing to do with the ballet she did. She's also been diagnosed with an overactive thyroid - so that may have some bearing. But the medics we've seen seem to be totally bemused. And certainly can't connect hyper-thyroidism to lumbar pain.
i was wondering of anyone out there had heard of any other ex-ballet dancers having similar issues (as they lose muscle tone & posture shifts?) And of so, if they know of medics who specialise in dancers injuries.
Thanks for your time...
