I hardly thought of cheerleading as a sport. I have thought
that I didn't want my boys to play football, but I guess I should
be more worried about cheerleading in the future.
Cheerleading safety efforts have led to modest reductions in the number of serious injuries in recent years, according to a new report about college and high school sports and cheerleading mishaps.
But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by far than other sports.
Researchers have long known how dangerous cheerleading is, but records were poorly kept until recently. An update to the record-keeping system last year found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading. The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven).
But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by far than other sports.
Researchers have long known how dangerous cheerleading is, but records were poorly kept until recently. An update to the record-keeping system last year found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading. The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven).
2 comments:
You learn something new every day.
There's more to cheerleading than beautiful ladies dancing on the floor and getting tossed to and from a formation. Just one critically wrong move and the fun may end up in an emergency room. Now that steps are being taken to quantify and study the magnitude of risks and dangers involved in cheerleading, it's about time to pinpoint the most common ones and from there, we can start with thinking ways how to prevent these dangers.
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