Harkness Center Coffee Chat: Dance Concussion Awareness and Prevention

Harkness Center Coffee Chats are guided discussions about topics related to dancer wellness and injury prevention. Our discussion this spring will be Dance Concussion Awareness and Prevention.

In this virtual Harkness Center Coffee Chat with athletic trainer Lauren McIntyre, ATC, we will discuss concussion identification and care-seeking behaviors; environmental safety and concussion prevention; and post-injury management strategies. Participants will come away with tools to advocate for themselves and their dancers. Please note that we will not address individual injuries or provide individual medical advice.

About the instructor:

Lauren McIntyre, ATC, program manager at Harkness Center, provides backstage care to Broadway shows and dance companies as well as injury prevention assessments and educational lectures to the dance community. She is an on-site certified athletic trainer for The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY.

Registrants will receive Zoom link by email. This is a live, virtual event that will not be recorded.

Refund policy: We cannot provide refunds after the event has taken place. Eventbrite fee is deducted from refunds.

About the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (www.DanceInjury.org) is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of dance professionals by providing breakthrough approaches to injury prevention, medical treatment, education and training, and research. Founded in 1989 through a partnership between the Harkness Foundation for Dance and the Hospital for Joint Diseases (now NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital), the Harkness Center provides world-class clinical care for dancers of all types and levels. The scientific foundation for this expert care comes from research into understanding the dancer’s body in motion coupled with workplace requirements. The Harkness Center’s evidence-based practice has produced globally accepted approaches to the recognition, treatment, and prevention of dance injuries.

In addition to caring for injuries, an integral part of the Harkness Center’s mission is providing education. For the dance community, Harkness offers injury prevention workshops, online courses, and screenings, including its long-running, free Injury Prevention Assessment (IPA) program. For fellow dance medicine professionals, Harkness is actively engaged in sharing clinical best practices through academic training with live and online continuing education courses. Since 2015, Harkness Center has offered DanceMedU, its digital learning platform (www.DanceMedU.org), which now offers over 20 lectures on dance medicine and dancer health.

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