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

As part of Sports Health at NYU Langone, 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. No professional dancer or pre-professional dance student is turned away due to an inability to pay.

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, physical therapy, and injury prevention assessments must be made by phone.

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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 has achieved full accreditation with the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education (ABPTRFE).

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.