It was the year 2006. The danger in cheerleading got into limelight when a leading cheerleader of University of Southern Illinois fell from a human pyramid and had broken her one of the bony segments of the spinal column. She also lost her consciousness and got bruises on lungs. She lost equilibrium and thus fell in a basket ball match while playing for her university. Her fall got a public eye.
The Missouri Valley Conference stopped its associated schools not to execute maneuvers higher than two levels. This one week sanction was converted to permanent the same season while basket ball tournament was still underway. Also, on July of 2006, the sanction was declared final by the relevant regulatory body.
The concerned regulatory and governing body nemine contradicente decided for revising the precautionary and game safety regulations. The foremost restriction was on limit on higher level. Two and a half level high stunts, tosses, and twisting were ruled out during the game-play and in the half times.
Fewer than, of three million athletics from female higher schools, three percent are cheerleaders, still cheerleading numbers to sixty five percent of all extremely harmful physical injuries in higher school athletes. Cheerleading is not still identified as an official college game, there are no fixed numbers on college cheerleading. But still, injuries account for sixty seven percent of female injuries pertaining to game from this sport.
In the start of the 21st century this game was considered as one of the most risky school physical activities. Chiefly, the physical damage to the body caused by accident or fracture was from stunts playing. These human stunts are familiarized as pyramids. These are acted through the game-play, also in the pre- and post-play. Commonly diagnosed injuries are found to be targeting wrists, arms, nose, shoulder bones, head, and anklets.
A well known journal on bones related diseased claims that the total of cheerleaders hurting from fractured bones, faintness, and a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments has soared to hundred percent from 1990 to 2002. Twenty five thousand hospital visits accounted for cheerleading harms related to the collar bones, anklets, skull, and throat area in the year 2001. Moreover, in America, more than sixty five percent of main game injuries to females from higher school, and to sixty seven percent of main game bruises to college students in the year 1982 and 2007 accounted for this sport. Besides, twenty three thousand were also said to have the same impacts from the sport.
Regardless of the aforesaid statistics, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA) analysis say that to females other sports have an almost equal number of injuries as are from cheerleading.
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