Harkness Center for Dance Injuries

The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital enhances the health, wellbeing, and quality of life of dancers and dance companies.

Members of our comprehensive medical team—physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, orthopedic surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, and acupuncturists—are actively involved in research and education into dance-related injuries and are dedicated to providing dancers with the following services:

• consultations for pain related to stress fractures, ligament injuries, and other dance-related conditions through our Dance Clinic
• physical therapy to help you recover from an injury and avoid future incidents
• injury prevention programs to help keep you dancing
• emergency care for injuries such as bone fractures and ankle sprains through the Samuels Orthopedic Immediate Care Center
• video visits with our doctors, physical therapists, and licensed clinicians, including for injury prevention assessments
• athletic training services, including numerous outreach, educational, research, and clinical services, to the performing arts community

We provide complete care that meets your medical, rehabilitation, and performance needs.

We accept many types of health insurance. Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.

Contact Us and Stay in Touch

To schedule an in-office appointment or a video visit, please call 212-598-6054. For more information about our services, you can call 212-598-6054 or email Harkness@NYULangone.org. Appointments for our Dance Clinic and physical therapy can be made by phone. Appointments for our Annual Wellness Assessments can be made by scheduling online.

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Research and Education

We are leaders in dance medicine research. We also offer online and live continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education unit (CEU) certificate courses. Launched in 2020, the Harkness Center’s Postgraduate Performing Arts Physical Therapy Fellowship Program. We also offer academic observations and three student internships: physical therapy, athletic training, and non-clinical.

At the forefront of our educational programming is DanceMedU, an accredited online course series. We offer Principles of Dance Medicine: Clinical Management of the Dancer Patient for healthcare professionals and the dance community.

In addition, our live education courses for healthcare and dance professionals provide evidence-based research findings, explore dance medicine as a potential career path, and provide education on injury prevention and dancer wellness.

Launched in 2026, the Harkness Dance Medicine Cohort of Rehabilitation Professionals (CORPS) is a four-module continuing education course for licensed healthcare professionals specializing in rehabilitation, running July to October. CORPs is eligible for up to 14 continuing education hours. Each module includes asynchronous content and a monthly virtual meetup to discuss case studies. Registration for the second run of CORPS will open in early 2027.