The number of cheerleaders being treated in emergency rooms across the country continues to increase with an 8% increase in all ages. Even more disconcerting is the 110% increase in emergency room visits for cheerleaders age 13 and under (Consumer Products Safety Commission, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, 2008).
With the high number of catastrophic injuries in the sport of cheerleading leading all of girls’ sports (National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, 2009) and with the increase in the numbers of cheerleaders treated in emergency rooms, national attention needs to be brought to this problem.
The causes need to be identified and solutions implemented to reverse this trend and to do it sooner rather than later. A number of organizations are working hard to draw attention to this problem including the National Cheer Safety Foundation (founded by a parent whose daughter was injured in cheerleading).
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