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January 2001 Evi.K, 25 years old, Female, Classical Ballet Dancer. Perineum, Achilles and Back Injuries. Evi K is a known, beautiful ballet dancer with “National Lyric Scene”, which is the Greek national organization for opera and classic ballet. In July 2000, Evi K. fell down some stairs during rehearsals and injured her right foot, on the front side of her ankle, the perineum muscle. This injury developed fast into a haematoma and edema. In addition, a two years old injury at the same foot, her chronic Achilles tendonitis, was aggravated again. Somehow, the Achilles had never healed up completely and, therefore, was giving her problems from time to time. This double injury was very painful indeed and the Doctors had to prescribe painkillers that she had to stop taking within one week because they created an additional problem, intense pain in her stomach. For the foot injury, the medical doctors recommended a long footrest, the use of elastic bandages and cold baths. Although she followed the recommended physiotherapy, she, at the same time, continued her profession obligations. She kept rehearsing and performing regardless of the pain. Eventually, the swelling and the pain from her perineum injury and her 2 years old Achilles problem, according to CAT SCAN, became worse and thus medical doctors and physiotherapists decided to stop her from dancing all next ballet season, which is one of the worse things that can happen to a professional ballet dancer with National Lyric Scene. September 2000, magnetic pulses were suggested to her and so she came to the laboratory of Dr. Pappas. During the first week, she had magnetic pulses daily, 20 minutes at her right foot and 5 minutes at her stomach, the later because of the painkillers. She continued with magnetic pulses two or three times per week. Immediately, after the first PAP IMI magnetic pulses session the foot became soft again and she could stretch it. After the third, all swelling was reduced and she only had a slight difficulty felt when stretching the foot. After one week, all the foot pain and swelling were eliminated and she was able to flex and point again, which for a classical ballet dancer appears to be the most important thing. Thus, because she was feeling no pain at her foot when she was getting up in the morning and when she was even doing extreme movements, she decided to start rehearsing again for the ballet season. And so she did and all went well with her foot. This ballet dancer, though, had a second misfortune soon enough. One Friday in November 2000, her ballet group was ready to depart for a tour abroad. The plane with all the ballet dancers was supposed to take off from Athens at 5 o’clock in the afternoon and like everybody else in the group, she was very excited and very busy since early that morning. And so, as Evi K was packing her suitcases in a hurry, she made a bad movement and she hurt her back. Around 12.30 at noon, she went to the laboratory of Dr. Pappas desperate, in tears and practically, unable to move, asking to have magnetic pulses on her back. She put the PAP IMI loop on her back and after 20 minutes when the pain stop, she started doing certain physiotherapeutic back exercises. As soon as she felt pain again, she stopped exercising and went back to the magnetic pulses. This interchange of magnetic pulses and exercising went on for about two hours and around 2.30, the ballet dancer felt well enough to take a taxi, to go home, to pick up her suitcases and go to the airport. The
Ballet tour abroad was a great success and as soon as she returned from
her trip, she treated everyone working at the laboratory of Dr |
