As a dancer you are highly prone to injuries. You are constantly forcing your body to do things that are quite unnatural. If you are not wearing well-suited poitne shoes, over stretching or not stretching enough, not receiving proper training, etc. you can potentailly damage your body. Injuries not only are painful, but they also come along with consequences. For example, the pointe shoes I had previously been wearing had causing me to accumulate multiple stress fractures