From ScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2008) — A new report on severe sporting injuries among high school and college athletes shows cheerleading appears to account for a larger proportion of all such injuries than previously thought.
The latest annual report from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-based National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research shows high school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years.
Previously, the figure was believed to be 55 percent, but new data included in this year’s survey indicates that the true number of cheerleading injuries appears to be higher.
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