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According to one estimate, 35,000 cheer athletes are injured each year. Tips for cheerleaders to avoid concussions, handle sport's unique challenges.
Adding insult to injury, the video of the wardrobe malfunction has gone viral just days after Deadspin published the Buffalo Bills Cheerleader Handbook online, which outs the franchise's insane ...
The primary cause of increased incidence of catastrophic injuries to cheerleaders is the "evolution of cheerleading to a gymnastic-like activity". [8] It is the leading cause of catastrophic injuries to females, representing over 65% of the catastrophic injuries occurring in high school and college female athletes in the United States. [32]
I'd always thought of football as the most hazardous sport in high school, but a new report from the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Cheer Safety Foundation, has opened my ...
These stunts usually include a flyer (the person on top), along with one or two bases (the people on the bottom), and one or two spotters in the front and back on the bottom. The most common cheerleading related injury is a concussion. 96% of those concussions are stunt related. [48]
While high school cheerleading can have teams with high-caliber stunts, collegiate cheerleading tends to focus on the pyramid aspect of stunting. Having two flyers on top of two bases is very common in college cheerleading. In most situations, club cheer, also known as all-star, performs a classic type of stunting.
The most immediate injury caused by asphyxia is hypoxia, which can in turn cause acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome as well as damage to the circulatory system. The most severe injury associated with asphyxiation is cerebral hypoxia and ischemia , in which the brain receives insufficient oxygen or blood, resulting in ...
Los Osos High School dancer and America's Got Talent contestant Emily Gold, 17, has died.. On Friday, Sept. 13, Gold was found dead by suicide at 11:52 pm, the San Bernardino Coroner's Office ...