A Kansas City doctor and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued a report analyzing the unique injury risks in cheerleading and how to improve safety for the first time in over a decade.

Cheerleading-related head injury rates have earned comparisons to football ...

Jennifer King had always been a dancer. What she didn’t realize, until that day she stood in the long line outside an airport hotel, is that she was a cheerleader, too. She had danced growing up, and ...

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...

Those vicious helmet-to-helmet hits got everyone's attention, but Texas officials this week took a step to make another dangerous school activity less risky for concussions: cheerleading. The ...

SYLACAUGA, Ala. (WIAT) — A parent of a B.B. Comer High School student is voicing concerns about his daughter’s cheer coaches and how they handled her health after she suffered a concussion. Dr.