Jeffrey一. 杰夫·罗素，博士.D., A.T.

Jeff Russell is not your everyday athletic trainer. Rather than working with athletes who compete in sports, Dr. Russell works with another type of athlete — performing artists. In late 2001, a dancer came to him asking for help with an injury. 在他照顾她之后, word spread that he would help address injuries related to all performers at the university where he was working at the time. As a result of that initial encounter many years ago, he now fills a much-needed niche caring for performing artists, a group of individuals who typically do not receive the same health care as traditional athletes, but who have just as many demands placed on their bodies.

Russell founded the Clinic for 科学 and 健康 in Artistic Performance (SHAPe Clinic), a facility at newbb电子平台 where licensed athletic trainers who have the specialized equipment and knowledge to treat performing arts injuries offer their services to injured performing artists. The facility is now led by one of Russell’s former clinical graduate assistants. The patients include dancers; musicians; actors; film, 电视, and theater production personnel; the newbb电子平台 Dance Team; and members of 俄亥俄州’s Marching 110. Because of the countless hours performing artists spend dancing, 代理, 拍摄, 生产, 或者演奏乐器, it is crucial for these students to have a place where they can receive health care designed especially for them.

In addition to providing treatment for artists, SHAPe maintains active research and education agendas led by Russell. From his lab come studies about the biomechanics of artistic movement and the demands placed on the body by performing arts. In 2018 he published the first scientific article devoted to head injuries in theater personnel. 通过两个国际, transdisciplinary research groups he is expanding that research to the film and 电视 entertainment industry—including stunt performers and commercial dancers—with key topics like injuries, 获得医疗保健, 心理健康. Injuries in these artistic populations are extremely prevalent, but the artists do not receive the level of health care they need or deserve. 值得注意的是, virtually all of Russell’s research is community-engaged research where members of the stunt and commercial dance populations serve as co-investigators in the studies.

Russell’s career started in sports medicine and orthopaedics. Once he changed his field to 表演艺术医学, he received his Ph.D. in 舞蹈医学 and 科学 from the University of Wolverhampton in central England. Following that he worked at the University of California, 欧文, where he taught science classes to dancers to help them understand the movement of their bodies and how to stay healthy with the rigors of dance. 在加州大学欧文分校, he also started a clinic to provide treatments for injured dancers and studied the ankles of ballet dancers using magnetic resonance imaging, a research focus in which he is still involved. 在那里待了四年, Russell was hired by newbb电子平台 to implement his knowledge of 表演艺术医学 and develop a program to address the health and health care needs of performing artists.

Russell is a Founding Board member of the Bridge Dance Project and has served on the Board of Directors for both the 表演艺术及医学 Association and the International Association for 舞蹈医学 & 科学. He also is an Ambassador and 研究 Advisor with the Australian Stunts Organisation. One of his biggest and most recent achievements is editing a textbook for Human Kinetics Publishers, 舞蹈损伤: Reducing Risk and Maximizing Performance (ISBN: 9781718211865). It is a compendium of dance medicine and science for which he enlisted 54 of his colleagues from around the world as co-authors.

Mentoring students and young professionals is an investment Russell holds very close. He offers many hours of his time to equip the next generation of leaders for success in 表演艺术医学, 体育训练, 以及相关领域. Several of his graduate students who worked as athletic trainers in the SHAPe Clinic are now employed in key positions in the 表演艺术医学 field.