Chiropractic Sports Therapy will be hosting a Flu Clinic this Saturday 11/15/08 from 10:30 -12:00 pm. Cost will be $20 and will be administered on a first come first serve basis. Vaccines are available for children ages 4 and up and adults too. Take this opportunity to prevent the spread of the flu!
The most commonly injured body parts in cheerleading are the ankle, wrist, shoulder, knee, and back in that order. Would you like to know how to prevent these common injuries and more in just 5 minutes a day?
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Welcome to Chiropractic Sports Therapy! Come check out the new facility located on site at University Cheer!! At Chiropractic Sports Therapy our main focus is sports medicine and the care of everyone from weekend warriors to club sports athletes. Our goals are to make sure we provide the latest and best care in sports medicine today.
Did you know cheerleading is one of the sports with the highest number of injuries and cheerleaders require a longer time for recovery compared to other sports? The reason for this is that cheerleaders use all of their extremities. An injury as small as a sprained finger can put a cheerleader out of action for weeks, where a football player can tape it up and keep playing.
Is cheerleading a sport? Did you know that according to the National Center for Catostrophic Sports Injury Research cheerleading injuries accounted for more than half of all catastrophic injuries sustained by female high school and college athletes? The total for all of the combined sports did not equal that of cheerleading. Cheerleading is also more demanding than most other male and female sports because there is no offseason. Most high school sports including football, basketball and volleyball have seasons lasting only 3-4 months. Cheerleading by contrast has a season starting with summer camp and usually ending in March or April, with skills training taking place almost year round! That is at least twice the length of other sports!
Over 70% of all cheerleading injuries are strains, sprains, and bruises. Read more about these and similar stories below.
Articles
Pompoms, Pyramids and Peril
Cheerleading Injuries on the Rise
Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics- Too many Pediatric Trampoline Injuries
Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics- Cheerleading- Related Injuries to Children 5-18 Years of Age: United States, 1990-1992
Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics- Pediatric Sport-Related Concussion: A Review of the Clinical Management of an Oft- Neglected Population
Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics- Epidemiology of Pediatric Injury- Related Primary Care Office Visits in the United States
Journal of Athletic Training- Catastrophic Head Injuries in High School and Collegiate Sports
British Journal of Sports Medicine- An Assessment of Injuries in College Cheerleading: Distribution, Frequency, and Associated Factors
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine- Trampoline- Related Injuries to Children