Medical problems of performing artists
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It is expected that in classical ballet dancers would be able to execute all the techniques symmetrically from the right as well as from the left side of the body. This study aimed to evaluate the symmetry of kinematic parameters of hip joints, knee joints, and foot progression angle of the left and right lower extremities (LE) in five classical ballet positions, as well as the symmetry of active and passive turnout and range of passive hip external rotation. ⋯ The perfect ballet symmetry pursued by dancers is not in fact so ideal. The most astonishing result was the existence of statistically significant differences in hip external rotation in the case of the 1st and 2nd positions.