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UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/05/ugas-che...e-director

Quote:Concussions and football have become synonymous. But as it turns out, athletes who play the perceived most-violent sport may not have the most danger for concussions.

At the Knight Commission forum on Intercollegiate Athletics, former United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asked panelists who were discussing the health, safety and well-being of college athletes to rank their level of concern for concussions in specific sports.

Football was not No. 1.

“Over the last four years, we’ve had more concussions in cheerleading than we have in football and soccer,” Georgia sports medicine director Ron Courson said.

Princeton director of athletic medicine Margot Putukian echoed this surprising sentiment.

“Wrestling is very high,” she said. “Followed by American football, ice hockey, lacrosse.”

She also mentioned rugby, which is played in the Ivy League. Soccer was not discussed or ranked on the list for Duncan.
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RE: UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
Competitive cheerleading is one of the most dangerous sports out there. In my high school there were way more broken/displaced limbs in cheerleading than football despite football having 3 times as many players.

It doesn't have to be dangerous. The main problem is that there is a stunning lack of proper training on spotting. There's this pervasive attitude of "if you have a spotter it will make you think you can't perform this maneuver."

Here's a link to "Epidemiology of Concussions Among United States High School Athletes in 20 Sports" Although this study combines competitive cheerleading with non-competitive, cheerleading has the second highest concussion rate during practices of any sport (football is #1) (when you include both practices and games, cheerleading is still in the middle of the pack).
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RE: UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
This is one of the reasons I've long believed that the NCAA should make dance and cheer varsity sports and raise the Division I sport minimum from 14 to 16 and the FBS minimum from 16 to 18.

Get the ladies (and dudes) under the catastrophic injury policies for athletics, make them comply with the higher injury reporting standards of intercollegiate athletics as well. That will lead to sensible(ish) safety regulations as well. Also would put an end to the private outfits charging them to enter competitions and selling the rights to TV and getting the sponsor dollars, instead would churn that back to where the schools would pay less and maybe get some of the profit.

I can't get on board adding them as varsity sports though unless there is assurance other sports won't get cut thus raising the membership standards needs to be part of it.
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RE: UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
"...American football..."

In the US of A, it's just "football."
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Re: RE: UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
(05-10-2016 09:15 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/05/ugas-che...e-director

Quote:Concussions and football have become synonymous. But as it turns out, athletes who play the perceived most-violent sport may not have the most danger for concussions.

At the Knight Commission forum on Intercollegiate Athletics, former United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asked panelists who were discussing the health, safety and well-being of college athletes to rank their level of concern for concussions in specific sports.

Football was not No. 1.

“Over the last four years, we’ve had more concussions in cheerleading than we have in football and soccer,” Georgia sports medicine director Ron Courson said.

Princeton director of athletic medicine Margot Putukian echoed this surprising sentiment.

“Wrestling is very high,” she said. “Followed by American football, ice hockey, lacrosse.”

She also mentioned rugby, which is played in the Ivy League. Soccer was not discussed or ranked on the list for Duncan.


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RE: UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
Competitive cheerleading is the most dangerous collegiate sport. And thanks to the feminists that drew up Title IX, it is not considered a sport under Title IX, because cheerleading is not feminist enough. Yet somehow Jane and Jill's scissoring field hockey affair is? Anyway, because of this cheerleaders aren't required to get the level of medical care other athletes are required to get.

You wanna talk to an angry non-feminist? Talk to a paralyzed cheerleader who had to foot most of her bills for the rest of her life thanks to feminists.



That being said this is U(sic)GA. So I expect the concussions were from accidentally finding an algebra textbook and opening it. 05-stirthepot 03-wink
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RE: UGA's cheerleaders had more concussions than football players
This can only mean one thing.....doctors will say that cheerleading should be banned.
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