Dance Clinic
The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries conducts dance injury clinics each week where dancer's injuries are evaluated and treated by a specially trained team of orthopaedic surgeons, physical therapists and/or athletic trainers. Services are provided to dancers on a sliding fee scale according to income. No dancer is turned away due to financial hardship.

In keeping with NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases' role as a teaching institution, the dance clinic serves as a training site for orthopaedic Residents and Fellows in the Sports Medicine and Foot & Ankle Services. Residents and Fellows co-evaluate each dancer patient under the guidance of the senior staff. As a result, physicians learn about the unique injuries incurred by dancers and the special skills needed to properly evaluate and treat them.

Physical therapists and athletic trainers also interact with the dancers during and after the dance clinic evaluation to answer questions about their injury and to address strategies for healing and prevention. The therapists plan a treatment course with the physician for each dancer to include home exercise activities, training modifications, padding, taping or bracing and referrals for dietary or psychological services.

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Radiology
Dancers seen in the Harkness dance clinic are often referred for x-rays, MRI's and bone scans. A
special relationship between the dance clinic and NYUHJD's Department of Radiology has been forged so that dancers coming from off-site physical therapy centers can schedule radiological procedures on the same day as their follow-up visit to the clinic.

Ambulatory Surgery
Approximately two percent of all dance injuries seen in our clinic result in surgical management. Most surgeries involve same day surgery or require one overnight stay. The Harkness Center’s Administrative Office provides patients assistance in obtaining medical clearance, scheduling pre-admission testing as well as financial counseling to patients undergoing surgical procedures.

Immediate Care
The Orthopaedic Immediate Care Center at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases services dancers with urgent or emergent orthopaedic problems. The center is open 8 am to 10:30 pm, 7 days a week. The Immediate Care Center treats only musculoskeletal problems, and, as such, can spare dancers the long wait typical at a general hospital emergency room.

Orthopaedic Consultants
The Center's physicians currently serve as orthopaedic consultants for the following groups:

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Ballet Hispanico
Buglisi/Foreman Company
Cedar Lake
Cirque du Soleil (New York City Engagements)
Complexions
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Fuerzabruta at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Grease at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
The Juilliard School
The Joffrey Ballet School
Mark Morris Dance Group
Martha Graham Company
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Monty Python's Spamalot at the Shubert Theatre
Parsons Dance
Paul Taylor Dance Company
SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance
Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre
City Center Theatre
The Joyce Theatre

The Center's physicians formerly served as orthopaedic consultants for the following groups:

110 in the Shade at the Studio 54, Roundabout Theatre Company
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Circle in the Square Theatre
A Christmas Carol at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden
American Dance Festival
Cabaret at the “Kit Kat Club” Roundabout Theatre Company
Carousel at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center
Chicago at the Shubert Theatre
Chita Rivera – The Dancer’s Life at the Schoenfeld Theatre
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Hilton Theatre
De La Guarda at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Donald Byrd/The Group
Erik Hawkins Dance Company
Footloose at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
Guys & Dolls at the Martin Beck Theatre
Hot Feet at the Hilton Theatre
La Cage Aux Folles at the Marquis Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors, Traveling Company
Man of La Mancha at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at the Neil Simon Theatre
Miss Saigon at the Broadway Theatre
Paul Simon’s The Capeman at the Marquis Theatre
Riverdance on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre
The Apple Tree at the Studio 54, Round About Theatre Company
The Joffrey Ballet
The King and I at the Neil Simon Theatre
The Music Man at the Neil Simon Theatre
The Red Shoes at the Gershwin Theatre
The Who’s Tommy at the St. James Theatre
The Will Rogers Follies at the Palace Theatre
Titanic at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre