The physical demands placed on dancers from current choreography and Abstract performance schedules make their physiology and fitness just as important as skill development. However, even at the height of their professional careers, dancers’ aerobic power, muscular strength, muscular balance, bone and joint integrity are the ‘Achilles heels’ of the dance-only selection and training system. This...

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Ofuji’s disease is clinically characterized by chronic and recurrent annular clusters of sterile follicular papules and pustules superimposed on plaques with central clearing and peripheral extension. Indomethacin is considered to be a first choice of treatment, but the pathogenesis of this disease is still obscure. Although most cases of Ofuji’s disease have been reported in Japanese people, i...