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Young women around the world should be careful if they wish to engage in cheerleading.
This developed after a recent research has shown that cheerleading is leading cause among young women.
Based on the data gathered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission the rates of injuries from cheerleading accidents have gone from nearly 5,000 in 1980 to close to 26,000 to 28,000 in the past few years.
Statistics taken from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research also revealed that approximately 65 to 66 percent of all female catastrophic injuries in either high school or college.
Researcher Miller Bohn revealed most of the injuries cause by cheerleading are still more the common types of things that people should think about such as muscle strains or pulls, ligament injuries, tendon injuries.
Bohn said the concern is that there are certainly a fair number of increasingly severe injuries.
Other medical experts said because of the increase in degree of difficulty in cheerleading skills, increased acrobatics and stunt activities may be increasing the risk of severity of injury.

Young women hooked on cheerleading should be careful since their sport could cause catastrophic injury for them.

It is said that catastrophic injuries seen in cheerleading involve either death, injuries that results in disability that are often related to head trauma or spine trauma.
The Doctors are also seeing more injuries that a person may not be able to recover from completely such as concussions or severe fractures.
According to the latest data, cheerleading injuries appear to be on the rise partly because of an increase in participants, but the sport has also changed significantly in the last 25 years.
It is observed that cheerleading no longer consists of athletes standing on the sidelines, rooting for a team.
The experts said to protect their children from cheerleading related injuries parents should ask questions about the coach’s experience, what type of athletes the coach has worked with and if they have experience with gymnastics stunt work.
The parents also need to know what the plan is for that cheerleading squad, what types of activities they will perform, who is supervising and where activities will be performed.