Cheerleading is a new found exciting job for many college goers, but in a recent study it is revealed that this act is not good for health.
In US, high school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years, according to an annual report released Monday by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research.
Catastrophic injuries to female athletes have increased over the years, since the first report was published in 1982.
"A major factor in this increase has been the change in cheerleading activity, which now involves gymnastic-type stunts," said Dr. Frederick O. Mueller, lead researcher on the new report and a professor of exercise and sports science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
According to research published in the journal Pediatrics in 2006, children ages 5 to 18 admitted to hospitals for cheerleading injuries in the United States jumped from 10,900 in 1990 to 22,900 in 2002.
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