About HKADMS

林漢威先生

Mr.Henry LAM

President

Hong Kong Association of Dance Medicine and Science

Presidential address

2016年10月，International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS) 在香港演藝學院舉行了第二十六屆的週年大會，席間有很多國際知名的學者、醫生、物理治療師、編舞者、舞者等相關的專業聚首一堂。IADMS 致力提倡改善舞者的健康、全人發展、訓練及表演等。而在香港一直缺乏這方面的資訊及關懷，所以在IADMS週年大會之後，一班熱心提昇香港舞者健康的醫療人員及跳舞專業人士成立了Hong Kong Association of Dance Medicine and Science (HKADMS)。

HKADMS的成立志在透過高質素的科學研究、一流的跳舞醫療治療、以科學為本的教育去提昇舞者的健康及表演。讓舞者能在舞台上享受身體隨著旋律而舞動的同時有著安全的跳舞生涯。

長久以來，香港在舞蹈醫療及科研的投入度不足。HKADMS結合了一班高素質的大學學者，旨在在香港推廣具國際級數的科研。我們會從外國帶來在舞蹈醫學研究中享負盛名的學者，為本港醫療及舞蹈專業提供學習機會。

希望在不久的將來見到大家，再作交流。

Mission

Three pillars

Education
Research
Clinical care

To enhance the health, performance and well-being of dancers and dance professionals through high quality scientific knowledge, evidence-based practice, access to first class specific healthcare and dance science support service in Hong Kong.

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Objectives

1. To improve the knowledge and skills of medical professionals in the management of dance injury.

2. To increase the awareness of the role of medical professionals in dance injury.

3. To promote education and research in dance medicine.

4. To improve the performance and well-being of dance professionals.

5. To provide a platform of communication and collaboration of medical professionals and dance professionals.

6. To promote international links with other international societies in dance medicine.

7. To advocate the government in enhancing the medical care of dancers and dance professional.

Dance Medicine – To keep everyone dancing, and smiling

Dancers are the perfect combination of artists and athletes. Therefore, just like all types of athletes, dancers, especially professional ones, are injury-prone with the high-intensity rehearsal. In general, up to 70% dancers are suffering from injured inflicted during dance training or performance, be it mild or major, an acute or chronic one. (Motta-Valencia, 2006)

This would in turn impair a dancer’s performance on stage, and worst of it all, putting an end to one’s dance career. In order to prevent such tragedy, dance medicine was developed back in 1970-80s which was an Orthopedic subspecialty initially to treat dance-related injuries.(Kravitz, 1984). And throughout the years, dance medicine has experienced an exponential growth with more and more professionals being involved, such as dance coaches, choreographers, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, psychologist, nutritionist etc.

To top that, the field of study has evolved from treating dance injuries only to a much wider perspective, including injuries prevention, performance enhancement, psychological preparation etc. Now dance medicine is considered as a subdivision of performing art medicine, which brings a more holistic care for dancers (Miller, 2006)

Dance Science – To exploring the science behind the art

It is well known to us that dance is an art which manifests through body movement, but the science of it – what is that?

Just like any other scientific discipline, dance science is the study of dance and dancer, in a quantitative and systemic manner.

Similar to modern dance medicine, it consists of a wide variety of topics, which covers scientific aspects like anatomy, biomechanics and physiology ; performance-related aspects such as choreography, conditioning, scheduling ; and training-related like coaching, nutrition, psychology etc.

Currently, there are a number of bachelor, diploma and even master course available for enthusiastic dancers to pursue this field of study. Locally, there is Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts; Internationally, there are institutes in UK (University of Bedfordshire, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Royal Academy of Dance), US (UCLA, Cornish College of the Arts,Ohio University) and Europe (University of Bern from Switzerland, Universidad Europea de Madrid from Spain, Utrecht university from Netherlands).

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