Many people think that cheerleaders are shouting on the sidelines, go team. Cheerleaders love to throw their members up in the air or create human pyramids to support their local sports team. All this is accompanied by hilarious chants and chants to cheer up the audience and the local club.
It is uncertain how many people have died from cheerleading-related accidents throughout history, but more than 100 people have died due to the sport since 1982. However, death rates have declined in recent years and have slowed to approximately one fatality per year.
However, cheerleading is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, causing about 20,000 cheerleading-related injuries every year. The sport fell into the fatality category as the last casualty of the 2010 Olympics. Over the past 20 years, more than 100 people have died while practicing this dangerous sport.
Despite the inherent risks involved in all sports, no one expects to die as a result of cheerleading. Death by a Cheerleader There is currently no accurate record of how many cheerleaders have died while working with a cheerleader. Here are some of the top statistics for concussion and catastrophic injury in cheerleaders.
Injury Reports from Cheerleaders
Although most cheerleading injuries are common among high school and college athletes in any sport, including sprains and ligament injuries, serious or catastrophic support group injuries are on the rise. Catastrophic head, neck, and spine injuries According to the National Catastrophic Sports Injury Center, female cheerleaders account for up to 50% of the catastrophic head, neck, and spine injuries that female athletes suffer in particular.
A study by the American Academy of Pediatrics showed that from 1982 to 2009, 65% of the “catastrophic” injuries suffered by athletes were caused by support groups, including head and spinal injuries that led to paralysis or death. According to the survey, when it comes to concussions during training, cheerleaders have the second highest injury rate, second only to football.
Cheerleading is no longer just a football team cheerleader on the sidelines, it is now a highly competitive skill-based sport that involves challenging passes and tricks that can lead to serious injury or death.
According to an annual report released by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research on Monday, high school cheerleaders accounted for 65.1% of all catastrophic sports injuries for high school girls in the past 25 years. Equally dismal is the university statistics.
Cheerleaders accounted for 66.7% of all catastrophic injuries in female sports, higher than the previous estimate of 59.4%. Surprisingly, during 35 years of data collection, college cheerleaders have been associated with 70.5% of catastrophic injuries in women’s sports. After cheerleading, the sports with a particularly high incidence of serious injuries to female athletes include gymnastics, track and field, hockey and lacrosse.
In 2007 alone, nearly 27,000 cheerleaders ended up in the emergency room, one in six with head or neck injuries. The popularity of cheerleaders has skyrocketed over the past 20 years, as has the number of cheerleaders in the hospital. According to a study published in the journal Pediatrics in 2006, the number of children aged 5-18 who were admitted to trauma support hospitals in the United States increased from 10,900 in 1990 to 22,900 in 2002.
Reviews of Cheerleading Injuries
The crude statistic that cheerleaders account for two-thirds of all catastrophic injuries among female high school athletes have been reflected in the news in New York. In its report on Catastrophic Sports Injuries for the Fall of 1982 and Spring 2011, the University of North Carolina’s National Catastrophic Sports Injury Research Center (UNC) noted that a catastrophic injury was sustained under the leadership of cheerleaders in the 2010-2011 school year.
Most (96%) concussions and closed head injuries are caused by cheerleader performance skills. When cheerleaders performed on artificial turf, grass, traditional foam or hardwood floors, nearly 90% of the most serious fall-related injuries were reported.
Cheerleaders had 0.73 injuries for every 1000 sports in the 2012-2013 academic year. It is noteworthy that, according to the NFHS, in 2011-2012, the level of injuries from the support group was 0.57 per 1000 athletes; 17 out of 20 studied sports. UNC also reported that college support groups were not associated with direct injuries during the 2010-2011 school year.
The overall frequency of concussions in all women’s sports is 41 concussions per 100,000 athletes infected; the cheerleader rating is about three-tenths of that. In all sports, except for cheerleading, the rate drops sharply: in practice, concussions occur about six times less than concussions in competitions.
In fact, according to the data, the number of serious and catastrophic head and neck injuries due to unsuccessful cheerleading stunts is increasing every year. Over the past 20 years, cheerleaders have changed dramatically, they began to perform more and more complex tricks.
Shoddy Safety Practices of Cheerleaders
Without government oversight and flagship sports, some of the people running cheerleaders and competitions do not adhere to the same safety, training and practice standards that apply to other sports, even those as complex as soccer, although cheerleaders go to great lengths to defend themselves. -police. With or without government regulation, cheerleaders pose the greatest risk of catastrophic injury to young participants in any sport.
Cheerleader Injuries and Safety Statistics Most of the research available discusses whether cheerleaders are safe and how many injuries occur per year. As support groups continue to present themselves as a serious sport, various groups are looking into sports injuries and related support group statistics. Archie has compiled a list of injuries sustained by cheerleaders over a decade ago. Over the past 28 years, footballers have been the victim of 97 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries, accidents resulting in permanent or temporary paralysis or death.
The total is small – 110 closed head injuries, skull fractures and cervical spine injuries that have resulted in “irreversible traumatic brain injury, paralysis, or death” during this time – and the support group is high with an estimated 3.6 million people countrywide. the academy found. In comparison, 17.9 out of 100,000 New Yorkers are hospitalized annually for traffic-related pedestrian injuries, nearly seven times the upper limit for catastrophic injuries among school cheerleaders.
The resulting injuries tend to be more serious because of what cheerleaders do when they are injured: jumping, twisting and throwing, and high speed creates a great opportunity for an accident. “The most serious injuries, including catastrophic ones, occur when performing complex stunts such as pyramids,” said Jeffrey Mjaanes, MD, FAAP, FACSM, AAP Sports Medicine and Fitness Council member and co-author of the statement. 2012 American Academy Pediatrics Policy on Cheerleading Injuries.
Conclusion
Cheerleading must be recognized as a sport in all states with benefits such as having qualified coaches, better access to medical care, and trauma surveillance. Until the NCAA officially recognizes cheerleading as a sport, safety requirements will not be strict and fast. And that’s why officially defining cheerleading as a sport can go a long way in reducing the injuries that make it risky. It’s cheerleading, also known as “competitive cheer” or “stunts and tricks,” as the University of Maryland called the event before killing it as a student sport during last year’s budget cuts.
In a written statement in response to AAP guidelines and recommendations, the National Federation of Associations of Public High Schools (NFHS) said it “agrees with many of the recommendations,” and highlighted its efforts over the past 20 years. On Minimizing Risk to High School Cheerleaders, beginning with the publication of the first Field Cheerleader Guidelines in 1988, which formed the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1992.
