Aug 16, 2009 — See Voice of America
Cheerleading, often involving complex gymnastics routines, accounts for most sports-related deaths and serious injuries to young American females. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research turned up some surprising results when it started to study female sports injuries over the past 25 years. "By looking at all female sports, cheerleading came up more and more and actually cheerleading was involved in 65% of the high school cheerleading catastrophic injuries and 70% of the college cheerleading injuries," said the study's author, Dr. Fred Mueller, the National Center Director in Chapel Hill.
