Targeted ballet program mitigates ataxia and improves balance in females with mild-to-moderate multiple sclerosis

• Andrew M. Scheidler,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Dominique Kinnett-Hopkins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominique Kinnett-Hopkins, Yvonne C. Learmonth

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Center for Education in Health Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Yvonne C. Learmonth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominique Kinnett-Hopkins, Yvonne C. Learmonth

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: School of Psychology and Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Robert Motl,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Physical Therapy at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Citlali López-Ortiz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lopezort@illinois.edu

  Affiliations Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Joffrey Ballet Academy, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2969-3184

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