Tips for Ballet Dancers to Save Their Toes
- Tape up toes before putting on toe pads with cushioned adhesive tape (from any convenience store)
- Second Skin: is used for burns but dancers can use at as a cushion for blisters and also relieves any open skin because it is made mostly of water
- toe spacers to help from bunions forming and to keep weight evenly distributed
- toe caps for the big toe helps to prevent the big toe from bruising
- Epsom salt: put some Epsom salt in water and soak your feet to help relieve the stress you put your feet through
- make sure that your pointe shoes aren't too big to prevent from having bruised toe nails
- Band-aids!!!
Pain is part of being a ballet dancer but you shouldn't push your own body's limits.
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