Preventing Injuries – What Cheerleaders and Coaches Should Know and Do
About.com has a great piece about cheerleading safety and what can be done to prevent injuries.
As with any sport, safety should be of the utmost concern for all involved in cheerleading. Whether you’re a cheerleader, coach or parent, your main objective should be to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
There are many references to safety studies that lead to insinuations that cheerleading is not a safe sport, but regardless of the statistics, one injury is too many. No one wants a broken bone, a day in the hospital, a visit to the ER or a catastrophic injury. Especially when a small amount of common sense can prevent any one of these outcomes.
The article goes on to include why cheerleading injuries occur and what you can do to prevent injuries.
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