All-Star Injury Poll!

[JumpingJackFlash]

Your level and your how your injury occurred please.

 

[CrownedtheGR8est]

4 Years ago I got my front teeth knocked out backing a prep double, she opened up at 1.5 and elbowed me.... To make matters worse, It was when I was crossing down to level 4 AND the day before my spring break eurotrip...

 

[JumpingJackFlash]

4 Years ago I got my front teeth knocked out backing a prep double, she opened up at 1.5 and elbowed me.... To make matters worse, It was when I was crossing down to level 4 AND the day before my spring break eurotrip...

OMG! Thats awful!

 

[My3KidsMom]

My daughter broke her femur throwing ro, h, whip, double. She has also rolled her ankle several times while working Standing Fulls however I don't really consider that an injury. I don't feel like standing fulls cause alot of injuries but that is just my observation, no statistics to back it up.

 

[cheermommaRN]

The only injury cp has had herself was a tumbling collision with a coach that was spotting her on the tumbletrak and she mildly sprained her wrist.
Most injuries I have seen (as a nurse) are collision injuries, kids tumbling into each other on synch passes or losing their "situational awareness" on the floor and injuries from improperly thrown tucks.

 

[cheermommaRN]

I would also like to add I played field hockey and college lacrosse. I have seen more teeth knocked out, split lips, broken bones in that sport than I have ever seen in cheer. When I was on the varsity team as a senior our forward got a ball flicked to her mouth and it knocked out two of her teeth. She refused to stop playing. Point is every sport has injuries and I think other psorts are way more dangerous then this one.

 

[CrownedtheGR8est]

For the record, I have seen several mouth related injuries, but never from a standing full?
Maybe a bruised ego from rubbing your face into the floor or a sprained ankle from underrotating when learning it. But once you have a grasp on it, you can really pull it out of anything.

 

[Seeker30]

i couldnt tumble to save my life.
spacing in the pyramid was little off and my legs werent secured on the ground my knee popped out menisci injury D:<
oh and a concussion- knee to the head!

 

[My3KidsMom]

I would also like to add I played field hockey and college lacrosse. I have seen more teeth knocked out, split lips, broken bones in that sport than I have ever seen in cheer. When I was on the varsity team as a senior our forward got a ball flicked to her mouth and it knocked out two of her teeth. She refused to stop playing. Point is every sport has injuries and I think other psorts are way more dangerous then this one.

I bet they say the same thing if anyone asks them about injuries lol. I would love to see studies. Jamie Parrish said on his facebook post that he was stunned by the amount of injuries he was shown when he did the news piece. I hope we can all see these statistics soon. I will say every doctor we go to always talks about how many injuries they see from cheer so there has to be more than we know about.

 

[Level5Mom]

Punch front step out with a locked leg, hyper-extended knee, out for 2 weeks.

Minor ankle rolls from stepping out of a backhandspring, punching out of a whip with a turned out foot, and doing a moose jump.....all out for 3 days or so. Her feet naturally turn out, so she now wears an ankle brace to help prevent the external rotation, to prevent further ankle rolls.

 

[cheerKT]

My worst two injuries were from landing on my knees during a back handspring, so level 2 tumbling

and backing a toe touch basket, so level 3 stunting. (which I forgot to check and it won't let me add)

 

[cheererinIL]

Never threw a bhs on the floor- not even once.. 3 broken wrists (stunting), a rolled ankle (walking), 2 knee surgeries (jumping), and a stress fracture in my back (stunting).

 

[fullpass]

CP suffered a concussion in warmups when the (youth 2) pyramid collapsed and the backspot ran out of the way. Only real injury in 5 seasons.

 

[redsmom]

My cps only significant injury was a concussion, in a pyramid when the stunt group behind her dropped their flyer on my cp's head, not once but twice in a row at practice. I didn't even get a phone call, they just kept on practicing. smh (p.s. this did not happen at the gym in my avatar!)

 

[Icclove]

My cp has been a lv5 athlete for 5yrs and she broke a bone in the palm of hand doing a bhs on tumble track. My son has been a lv5 athlete for 6yrs and broke his femur jumping.