Dance Prehab Physical Therapy & Performance

10/15/2026

Two 13-year-old dancers can be at completely different stages of physical development.

Peak Height Velocity (PHV) describes the period of fastest growth during adolescence. Changes in body proportions, strength, coordination, and tissue loading capacity can influence how dancers move and respond to training.

From a parent’s perspective:
Growth and puberty can be challenging, especially in environments where comparison is common. Help your dancer understand that bodies develop at different rates, changes in coordination are not necessarily a loss of ability, and conversations should focus on how their body feels and functions rather than how it looks.

From a physical therapist’s perspective:
Biological maturation influences how we assess injuries, prescribe strength training, and progress rehabilitation. Two dancers with the same diagnosis may require different approaches depending on growth, training history, physical capacity, and current demands.

Same age doesn’t mean the same development. Same injury doesn’t always mean the same rehabilitation.

Understanding growth helps us support the dancer’s health today while preparing them for the demands of tomorrow.

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06/11/2026

We have always believed that the work of DANCE|PREHAB has to extend beyond the clinic and into the community.

Supporting dancers well means bringing more of the ecosystem into the picture: the dancer, the training environment, the educators, the families, and the future providers who will continue shaping this field.

While we have had the privilege of teaching guest workshops for the ABT Gillespie School here in Costa Mesa over the years, this year marked a meaningful step forward in our collaboration through dancer assessments and further integrating our .education approaches.

Beyond dance-specific movements, this initiative also considered growth and maturation, giving us a more complete picture of how dancers are developing and what may need to be considered in the training and support of the specialized youth artist-athlete.

We were also grateful to provide volunteer and learning opportunities to surrounding health science and physical therapy students from and other programs in our area.

🙏🏼The deepest gratitude to

🙏🏼Thank you for the ongoing support and consult all these years.

🙏🏼 And most grateful for our team, past and present, as we continue to learn and refine our own processes to support those in our space the best we can.

05/24/2026

1. Train your FULL hip range of motion.
2. Glute vs hamstring strength and control - learning
3. Inner thigh strength as a stabilizer
4. Great way to address activation and awareness but not progressive overload if true strength is what you need.
5. See #4

Now, there are a variety of entry points to movement and rehab. For many hip situations, here are some of our non-negotiables! No Sunday scaries here.

How can we help?
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05/20/2026

Thank you to those who trusted us, we wouldn’t be here without YOU!🫶🏽

05/12/2026

some brief words for the quiet and unseen moments. 🤍

05/05/2026

For us, being dance-specific means holding space for all of that.

Because healing isn’t just about restoring function. It’s about restoring you.

How can we best serve you?
☑️ Physical Therapy & Rehab
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04/29/2026

There’s nothing wrong with a “dance-specific” warm-up. But I do think there is so much more that can be done with that space.

For us, specifically, it’s how we lay the long term foundation for youth dancers engagement with strength and conditioning concepts and practice.

When I look back at the movers we’ve shared space with over the years, from the studio to college programs to professional companies, the common thread isn’t a single exercise or method. We’re certainly not a method or special approach. We are a space that creates consistency of exposure across time with shared language.

Through our time together, no matter who, or where the mover is, we find opportunities and moments to return to ideas, acknowledge shifts in their physicality, and build towards an awareness and process they can rely on in a world of constant change.

Over time, that becomes something they carry with them. Not a set of exercises, but a way of approaching movement, preparation, training, and learning.

⚠️⬆️ Looking for dance educators who are looking to build tools to enhance their ecosystems: https://forms.gle/R6PguuHQhVoSdBi69

04/12/2026

Grateful to have had the chance to co-moderate this panel alongside COPA Dean Dr Anne Hogan, titled, “The Evolution of Dancer Health and Wellness” with the dancers of Paul Taylor Dance Company on their recent visit to Chapman University College of Performing Arts.

So wonderful for our dance students to hear from professionals who continuing to live and learn about themselves as they navigate career longevity in real time.

04/11/2026

Healing is not just about knowing the timeline. It is also about learning how to listen, adjust, and respond to what your body is telling you within the reality of dance training.

You don’t live in a vacuum. You are navigating class, rehearsal, performance, stress, school, work, emotions, sleep, nutrition, and the pressure of wanting to keep up with everything around you. Let’s take all that in. Recovery has to make sense within real life, not just on paper.

Healing is not just about getting through a timeline. It is about doing what needs to be done so your body can keep showing up for the life and dance demands in front of you.

Let’s move!
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04/08/2026

Rehab can feel frustrating when a dancer is doing everything they were told to do, but the process still does not feel clear. The exercises may be there, the appointments may be happening, and the effort may be real, but how do we know if we are purposefully building back and connecting our healing back to training and performance?

When rehab does not make sense, it becomes harder to trust. ⚠️ Parents can feel unsure how to support,
⚠️ Teachers may not know what to reinforce,
⚠️ Dancers often left trying to follow a checklist that still feels vague.

🤝For us, rehab is more than compliance. It should create understanding. It should help the dancer and the people around them feel more clear on what is being worked on, why it matters, and how decisions will be made moving forward.

📈Here’s to helping make your rehab feel more clear, more useful, and more connected to your life as a dancer.

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