If you’ve seen Bring It On , then you know cheerleading is serious business. Gymnastic moves and daring lifts are just as important, if not more so, than the symbolic pom-poms. When it comes to serious injuries, cheering is number one and those feats of daring are to blame. Cheerleading, at both the high school and college levels, was found to cause the majority of catastrophic injuries in a comparison of all sports-related injuries. The study, conducted by National Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, explains that catastrophic injuries usually involve spinal cord

damage , which is indeed serious business. According to a report released last year by the National Center For Catastrophic Sports Injury Research , injuries sustained by high school cheerleaders in the last 25 years account for just over 65 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries sustained by female high school athletes, and the statistics for college cheerleaders are just as high. This makes women’s rugby not seem so rough. Were you a cheerleader? View 4 Photos ›

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Cheerleading Leads to Serious Injury