Girls’ Most Dangerous Sport: Cheerleading
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In fact, according to the data, the number of serious and catastrophic head and neck injuries from failed acrobatic cheerleading stunts are increasing every year. Most cheers now involve complicated choreography that includes tossing people into the air, back-flips, tall human pyramids, and other dramatic and risky acrobatic stunts.Some of the most commonly reported injuries often the result of falls, dismounts, and weight -bearing stunts are to the ankle, knees, back, wrist, and hands. In fact, Harris say.Researchers have found that the most common injuries among young cheerleaders were strains and sprains, which make up 52 percent of cheerleading injuries.
Bruising, fractures, cuts and concussions are also reported, but to a lesser extent. Hancock, now a freshman at Ohio State University, said she and her cheer team often endured painful wounds.Studies show that cheerleaders at the base of stunts are at the highest risk for concussions because other people can fall on them.
Flyers, or those at the top of stunts, are also at risk for concussions, especially if they fall or are dropped. Concussions are a serious injury that carry potential for long-term problems.Cheerleading stunts pose an increased risk for injury, especially in terms of sustaining a concussion or CHI. Spotters and bases were most likely to be injured during the performance of cheerleading stunts and were at risk for sustaining strain and sprain injuries.Concussions were the most common cheerleading injury, accounting for about 31% of all injuries, according to a recent study.
Most head injuries in cheer occur while stunting (96%) and are the result of a fall, with practice being more dangerous than competitions, perhaps due to the fact that cheerleaders are learning and trying new stunts during practice.Injuries sustained outdoors involved extreme heat in 8% (7/87) of cases, extreme cold in 2% (2/87) of cases, and gusty winds in 1% of cases (1/87). Most of the injuries occurred when the injured cheerleader was attempting a stunt (52%, 296/565) or tumbling (26%, 149/565).
The ACL or the Anterior cruciate ligament in knee have the highest risk of strain with an off-balance landing from jump. Though the ankle and knee sprains are most common injuries in cheerleading, the most dangerous cheerleading injuries of concern are the injuries to head and neck.According to a 2013 Washington Post article, cheerleading was the cause of more than half of the “catastrophic injuries to female athletes. This includes skull fractures, cervical spine injuries, brain injury or concussions, paralysis, and death.
Common injuries include plantar fasciitis, patellar tendonitis, ankle sprains, stress fractures, hip strains, and inflammation around the hips. The most serious injuries typically are the results of stunting, though some come from jumps and other tumbling. Besides immediate injuries, cheerleading can have long-term effects on the body as well.Cheerleading Injuries On The Rise October 9, 2008 / 7:57 AM / CBS Cheerleading may look like a lot of fun, but it’s a sport that’s injuring a lot of girls.While ankle sprains are most common, sprains can also occur in the knees, wrists, neck and back.
Back injuries are also common in cheerleading, largely from tumbling and stunts. Back injuries can be caused by twisting and rotating in stunts or tumbling passes and from lifting, catching, or falling during stunts.Harris says cheerleading injuries are usually far more serious than those in “officially recognized sports” because this “activity” doesn’t always get the support it deserves.
The most catastrophic injuries involve the brain and spinal cord in the form of traumatic brain injuries and spinal injuries that result in temporary or permanent paralysis. These injuries have been on the rise due to the growing popularity of cheerleading and the increasing complexity of the stunts being performed.Basic and Advanced Cheerleading Stunts. The level of cheerleading motions toward the high jumps varies and restrict to some extent to the schools, for example, the junior school’s cheerleaders are not allowed to perform difficult stunt due to the risk of injury, same goes to high school and so on.
Anyway, the advance cheers stunts are mainly.
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| from 1982 to 2000, cheerleading accounted for 56.8 percent of the total number of catastrophic injuries to high school and collegiate female athletes. | |
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61 comments
When I was in highschool one of the cheerleader got hurt during practice and the other cheerleaders thought she died cause she wasn’t moving. She was in the hospital for a long time and had to wear a halo for a long time after that. She still played sports after that.
so technacly wat ur trying to say is use mats and get certified u could have just said that
Sad,none the less. Glad that she didn’t suffered a more severe injury,but, let’s be honest.This is just a preamble to what they really are after… $,$$$.$$ more power to them..good luck
cheer is a very competitive sport, it’s fun, but it’s getting more and more challenging every year. people should respect cheer more. people say “cheer isn’t a sport” it’s not on the sidelines but in comp it’s harder then football. (my opinion)
“and you saw some of those tumbles”? thats not what they’re called, its called stunts. you’re a doctor, not a professor on cheerleading. know your facts before you start blurting out accusations and using words that you don’t know the meaning of.
HATE IT I GOT INJURED ALOT IN CHEER I WAS IN CHEER SINCE 1 STILL LEARNING BACK ROUNDOFF BACKFLIP ARIEL REST EASY����CHEER IS A SPORT
@missoreoluvr Go to a cheer competition, we have more fans than a football team 😉 You might be referring to the spirit team, in that state, theyre not a sport. Enter competitive cheerleading, and they are. Look it up. Top Gun Level 5 then talk crap that you don’t know about.
When I’m watching football idgaf about some random dancers on the sideline
@Droolbaby It’s funny that we’re a “dance performance” when 10 seconds of our routine is dance….and the rest of it is busting our asses.
You think a gymnast would be given a good score for falling off the balance beam or a cheerleader would be given good marks if she went to far left or to far right. You think a dancer will be given good marks if shes turning and she keeps hopping about the stage NO they would be marked down but if they do it perfectly and land on the beam stay in the lines they have to and not hop around while doing turns than they will be given good marks. Cheer is a sport just like football is.
To all football players out there who don’t respect their cheerleaders FREAK YOU! Bc whenever you guys get pushed down the cheerleaders get on their knees. But y’all are too stupid enough to be respectful to the cheerleaders to stop the game and get on ur knees! SO DISRESPECTFUL
damn, today i nearly broke my neck cheerleading doing the cradle, how?
the two base girls who were lifting me up went up at different times making me uneven so i fell to the side, the back support continued to hold my ankles as I fell so i went head first, lucky i put my head up.
Cheerleading, ok stop females like that and they are not even going to listen to you all!!!! I am a cheerleader and I am not going to listen!!!!���������� you idiots
I believe you are exactly right. In effect, Cheerleading is as physical as most any other sport. When people say cheerleading is not a sport, they may mean that it is a highly physical activity which is not done competitively and is therefore not a competition (sport= competitive physical activity) like yoga or working out for fun. But, as there are many competitions, it is completely a sport. Two Thumbs Up!
I’m a gymnistc I dislocated my kneecap in second level and are not gymnastics
Cheerleading is safe I do it, you have to have good bases and trust them
Cheerleading is a sport. We work at the same level as football players. Maybe even harder
I am Korean and i think Koreans are gald not to do cheerleading
It’s a shame that she got hurt but the idea that they should have stopped the game is ridiculous how many times has a player been hurt just as bad or worse it’s just the game
Cheerleaders are just mascots for football players? Are you kidding me? Please go look up Kentucky Wildcats. Then go watch teams from Cheer Extreme, California Allstars, Maryland Twisters, Top Gun, ACE, Brandon Allstars, Spirit of Texas, Twist & Shout, and World Cup. After you do that then we can deebate about whether or not cheerleaders are “just mascots” for football.
@thefunchick11 Research competitive cheerleading. It’s a sport. And we don’t scream, we yell, we don’t just jump around(which isn’t as easy as it looks, try a triple toe back tuck), we tumble, we don’t just lift eachother up, we save eachother’s lives cuz one wrong move could be a paralyzation or death.You should try it or go to a competitive cheer practice to see what it takes. We are scored on perfection. Every little point counts. We go up against other teams. Therefore, we are a sport.
THE ONLY READON THE PERCENTAGES ARE SO HIGH IS BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY ONLY ACCOUNTED FOR GIRLS AND MOSTLY GIRLS DO CHEERLEADING INSTEAD OF A REAL SPORT
If people declare cheerleading a sport there would be more rules and regulations. NSA bans alot of things such as no braced flips. if it was accually known as a sport nationwide there would be more certified coaches and less injuries. cheerleading is a very demanding and physical sport if you dont have the proper techniqe you could get hurt badly ive cheered for 3 years and ive broken my hand, thumb, wrist, and sprined my back.
Cheerleaders are paid $8/hr… isn’t that sad? Players are paid millions but cheerleaders just pennies!
I don’t understand how people could not acknowledge cheerleading as a sport like I deadass respect cheerleaders bcos of how hard they train and constantly get injured yet people still look down on them
All the respects to Cheerleaders��
They literally risk their lives for ever game
And to the people that doesn’t pay attention to the cheerleaders while games, you guys need to respect and thank them 24/7 from now on for making games more interesting and exciting
What do she mean it’s part of the sport and they have to take it like her neck looks like it’s of her neck
@gymnast71858 I’d LOVE to see you base or fly a rewind, ball up, switch up,bow and arrow, hold your leg up without your hands in a heel stretch,stick a stunt even if your bases barely have your foot because if you fall, that could cost your team a national title and money. Until you’ve actually DONE a level 5 or 6 stunt,then shut your mouth. We make it look easy. We had a high level gymnast on my open team, and most of the level 6 stunts we were doing, she was scared to do.
My problem is that it says girls most dangerous sport and boys litteraly invented it��
It pisses me off that in spite of the risks taken by cheerleaders, with the amazing jumps, lifts, tosses, and pyramids they do, cheerleading is still not considered a sport especially on the high school and college level where the hours they practice equal or exceed other sports. The reason given for cheerleading not being a sport is: “Cheerleading is not commonly considered a sport because of the inability to compete against an opponent.” Cheer leading competitions are incredible. They already exist. Those girls and boys are as competitive as any athletes playing sanctioned sports. If it were classified a sport, high schools and colleges could have fantastic competitions with points given for difficulty ratings for each accomplished jump etc with required lifts etc needing to be done.
I am a cheerleader on a level 5 team and I got a minor skull injury by doing a half turn lib cradle from extension and btw I am a front base
I’m seeing a lot of comments and they’re very divided among cheer isn’t a sport/ is a sport. Me, a cheerleader, i think unless you can’t do or attempt what we do don’t say anything. We are factually, now considered a sport. We tumble like gymnast and stunt like acrobats. Especially my bases. They use a whole lot of their strength to hold me in the air for a good amount of time, 150 or 100 above their heads. Especially during a one man.
The reason why people don’t respect it is simple, a sport where you cheer on people playing a sport is boring if your not doing it. Not to mention a sport where ur looks and body image means as much as ur dancing/cheer stunts abilities seems to take away from the sport when ugly women or women with any fat can’t do it lol?
i am a cheer leader and i broke my arm leg ankle elbow and separated a rib
You guys trippin if you ain’t calling this a sport. This shit crazy AF. But i also have a massive fear of heights. Can’t even rock climb 2ft with feeling like im dying
“who are expectsd to catch their peers”
yeah there are 13 year olds doing the same stunts at 20 year olds, ya know?
my old coach was on this team and he told us about this and they had to keep on going on since a lot of people were getting injured
If your flyer is falling DONT GO AFTER HER FEET HER HEAD NECK AND SHOULDERS ARE MORE IMPORTANT
@goofy12310 I was dropped on my head, wasn’t breathing, almost was paralyzed, and had a headache for two weaks and couldnt do anything. I didn’t cry once or go to the hospital. I took some medicine and got back into it. I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve seen girls break their arm in a routine, and they still kept going, not crying either. We get the fuck over it too 😉
@purpleandblack10 One person throws us too, and ice skating isn’t for me. I don’t enjoy it like how I enjoy the intensity of what I do. Not to be a bitch….but you started a sentence with “and”….I believe that’s grammatically incorrect….
I find it very amusing how all of these “Cheerleaders” are so narcissistic. Seriously stop obsessing over yourselves and being over dramatic. Cheerleading is not war, your not dying for your country so stop acting like it.
@noimchucknorris Would you like to throw a linebacker? and if you EVER see college cheerleaders like UCF, their girls are short but are HUGE, they have some serious biceps and leg muscle to do what they do.
They freaking spelled kaylins name wrong the first time they brought up her name they spelled it kaylen and her Twitter was under it with the actual spelling and the second time they brought it up they spelled it right. News people theses days.
I cheer as well and have cheered for 10 years so far, and for someone to say that it’s not a sport… just makes me mad because I’d like to see them put effort in practices and perform, and be in injuries cuz that is what it takes
I had a college coach in Texas of all places who only took the job so she could get fake boobs. my high school coach was better equipped than she was so it’s not always true. We basically were self coached.
I am a backspot in my high school cheer team and I do not care if I get hurt, my flyer is not touching the floor, no matter what that means has to happen to me.
IF BRIX KIX WAS BEING RUDE TO YOU LIKE HE WAS ME THEN I REPORTED HIM AND HE IS GONE NOW
My problem with this is, the title is called “Girls’ Most Dangerous Sport: Cheerleading,” but boys can do cheerleading too!
I’m a soccer fan personally I hate hockey but I know it’s way more violent then cheer
If u want to protect yourself, don’t do it! And yes the coaches are certified. We do way more than they showed in that video. Look up anything on level 5 cheerleading and u will know what i mean. If u want to ask me something my IG is @patterson547
Cheerleaders make it look easier and these haters thinks it’s easy bc their stunts are clean �� I smell jealousy
Rather interesting HLN decided to interview another NFL cheerleader who came from a team that doesn’t have a coed squad.
Im in cheer and when people say Its not I sport I get pretty upset b/c no! I dont have to run or kick a 2 pound ball but I throw a 100 lb girl in the air…And when they loose a catch/pass they just loose a touchdown or getting to move down further…I loose everything and get in huge trouble…No i dont have 3 hours to prove how good i am i have 2 1/2 min
is it weird that this is the first cheer video i saw and it made me want to do cheerleading
ive been doing it for 3 years now hahaha
I understand cheerleading is a hard sport but like any other sport it take time to get well and be in shape and a lot of people can raise someone over there head so don’t brag.
Some people don’t understand how hard Cheer can be. Try holding a girl by yourself above your head
This is true. I sprained my ankle twice this month because of it. I keep missing practices and it’s bad:/ I can’t walk either. Ugh this really sucks, but I’m going to strive.
1. Hes a guy 2. that’s 2014 not 2015 because in 2015 they have different uniforms
To u people that say cheer isnt a sport “a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment”
I hate when people always say cheerleading isn’t a sport like gymnastics and dance are why can’t cheer I’m mean we are throwing girls up catching them tumbling then landing and much more harder and difficulty than dance
It’s not like people just say “I’m gonna start cheer leading” and they immediately begin doing flips and throwing and stuff. They train for AGES to do this. They practice so much so that they are PREPARED! Jeez, this video annoyed me alot