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Dance Medicine Education Initiative (DMEI) provides a rich set of continuing education opportunities

11/19/2025

Check out the DMEI November Newsletter for a quick recap of the collaborative taping course co-taught by and and updates on the Module schedule for the first half of next year! 👏👏

11/14/2025

The FINAL DMEI Mentorship Monday session is almost here! It’s been an exciting 2025 and Jennifer and I have had the best time connecting with all of you who have attended these meetings throughout the year! 👏🙏🏻

Registration for the final session will open up on Monday, November 24th 🗓️. Spots are limited to 8 former or current DMEI course participants. The cost is free! 🎉

Don’t hesitate to take advantage in this opportunity. We always have the best time at these meetings and look forward to wrapping up the year with you!

For more details and to register, please visit 🔗 in BIO > Mentorship Mondays.

Enjoy the weekend!

Andrea & Jennifer

11/13/2025

Honored to have taught this coursework with Emma Faulkner, co-creator of our From Stability to Mobility Taping course.

Emma is a brilliant PT and a true expert when it comes to taping dance-specific injuries - whether it’s a standard approach or an unusual case that demands quick thinking and creativity. Her clinical precision, artistry, and ability to adapt in real time embody exactly what this course is designed to teach.

Together, we’ve built a curriculum that challenges clinicians to think critically about when to restore mobility, when to reinforce stability, and how to integrate taking as a tool for both protection and performance.

Her insight captures the 💙of this work: understanding that dancers are both athletes and artists- and that their support strategies should reflect that duality.

🙏🏻 for this ongoing collaboration and for the brilliance Emma brings to every course we teach together!

Clinical precision supports artistic movement- and collaboration makes it stronger.

11/11/2025

Movement tells the story of how a dancer loads, adapts and expresses - and the lower extremity is a key chapter in that story.

In Module II/Section I, we began our journey into the intricate relationship between the foot, ankle and knee - exploring how anatomy, biomechanics, and pathomechanics intersect to shape both performance and injury risk.

When clinicians learn to view movement through this lens, evaluation becomes sharper, interventions more efficient, and dancers return to their art with greater confidence.

This course challenges us to refine and upskill our movement analysis - to look closer at the complex, interrelated mechanics of the lower extremity and identify where efficiency, control and coordination can be restored.

Three takeaways from the course:

1️⃣ Function is never just local

2️⃣ The knee may or may not be the villain

3️⃣ Movement analysis is your treatment roadmap

Clinical precision supports artistic movement - and that’s the DMEI difference.

10/23/2025

So grateful to our gift sponsor for capturing the energy and creativity from this past weekend’s DMEI/ADM collaborative taping course! 🎥✨

It was an incredible weekend of learning, sharing and advancing dancer care together! ❤️

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Grateful to be in community with PTs who not only use HUETAPE but help push movement, recovery, and representation forward. 🩹💪🏾
 We were thrilled to serve as a gifting sponsor for the joint course hosted by DMEI and Atlanta Dance Medicine: the Progressive Taping Techniques Workshop for Dance Injuries, led by Andrea Zujko, PT, and Emma Faulkner, PT.

During this workshop, Emma and Andrea presented their go-to strategies, highlighting the appropriate techniques that can be tailored as dancers advance in their recovery journey. The workshop proved to be incredibly insightful, providing physical therapists with the opportunity to enhance their skills. 🙏🏾

10/18/2025

🌟Our gift sponsor is almost here! 🌟

We’re half way through the first day of the DMEI/ADM Taping Workshop and the course is going great!

We started with the the foot, moved up to the ankle and will continue to travel up the lower leg to the knee. We’re super excited to welcome HUETAPE as our gift sponsor and can’t wait to film content this afternoon with them.

We ❤️ supporting small businesses, especially those started by women and women of color.

More photos and videos to come!

10/13/2025

We’re absolutely thrilled to receive such wonderful feedback from who attended our inaugural taping course last September down in Atlanta.

Thank you again, Kelly, for your inspirational review! Your positive words have inspired us to continue to develop this course and we’re really looking forward to sharing the second version this coming weekend!

Interested in joining us? Don’t delay and sign up today! We have one spot left and would love to have you as part of the group.

VISIT 🔗 in BIO > From Mobility to Stability for more information and to register

10/06/2025

Thrilled to have had the chance to spend time with the one and only .milner 2x in one week!

Thank you for being more than just a colleague all these years. This friendship, over 20 years in the making, is something I truly treasure.

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10/05/2025

✨Wrapping up ✨

What an incredible few days in Vegas with the global dance medicine community! From inspiring lectures and poster sessions to hands-on demos (and even a few unexpected flamingo arabesques 🦩), this year’s conference was full of energy, collaboration, and learning.

On a personal level, it was so nourishing to reconnect with colleagues, to see so many familiar faces who have taken DMEI courses, and to build new connections with colleagues I didn’t know as well before. These conversations remind me why I do this work- advancing dancer health & wellness together.

Even though I wasn’t presenting this year, it was such a joy to be in the audience, cheering on friends and colleagues who shared their research and expertise. Watching their work shine was a true highlight of the week!

I was thrilled to be able to support my fellow colleagues and I am deeply grateful to long-time collaborators , and to new friends and partners across the field. I am proud that Dance Medicine Education Initiative could contribute as a sponsor this year and continue growing as an educational platform for practitioners who care for dancers.

Until next time - onward in our shared mission of advancing knowledge, supporting artistry, and building community. 💃🕺🩰✨

09/28/2025

Thrilled to have met co-founder, Maria Montanez, at the conference.

These shoes feel amazing!!! Lots of room for the toes, customized midfoot support, tactile stimulation at the heel and the option to insert a small ice pack inside the top of the shoe.

It was so lovely meeting you Maria! Looking forward to continuing our conversation once I’m back in NYC.

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