Like most students around the country in early 2020, Elise Franchi had to take virtual classes as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. But studying dance on Zoom might have contributed to what eventually was diagnosed as a partially torn labrum in her left hip.
“We think because I didn’t have proper flooring and it was slippery, it caused me to grip in my hips too much to stay stabilized,” Franchi said, an 18-year-old trainee in the Charlotte Ballet Pre-Professional Program. “That’s when the…
