The worst injuries I have seen have been flyers who got “flown” off course and landed hard, but bases who catch spinning elbows to the face, or twist to catch an errant flyer and wrench their backs are more common. It’s a scary and largely ungoverned “sport.” (scare quotes because in most states it is not recognized as a competitive sport and so has essentially no rules around safety or injury, including reporting.)
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Exactly! The local high school has the cutest flag team. Plus they do their routines with the marching band. Much better than a lot of yelling, high injury rates, and being stuck with the football team and a heap of misogyny and sexism.
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We’re dealing with this right now. Our 10th grader is both a cheerleader & a vocal music student, was already worried about how yelling might affect her singing voice, and just had the vocal coach tell her it’s about the worst thing she could be doing for it…
Not to downplay that this happens, but it (cheerleading, football, sports in general) sure is a completely different milieu from when I was in school in TX:
(Maybe it’s neither here nor there that this particular football team is 1-6 this season; last week’s score was 59-0 
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It’s a very big school, but there’s no flag team nor dance drill team (which, come to think of it, would’ve been a perfect alternative); the band (or at least part of it) shows up for games but does not actually march… 
Thirty-mumble-something years ago (again given that context in TX), I would never have expected to be in a position where anyone would refer to me as the “cheer dad” 
(Edit for clarification. Maybe.)
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I’m glad you’re supporting your kid! I hope she can protect her voice somehow
I’ll freely admit most of my information on cheer is outdated. I was struck recently, when we went to a football game, how homogeneous the cheer teams and drill teams were. Very white and all the same body type. Most of the names called out at half-time were ones I associate with whiteness. One Hispanic last name. The local HS was less homogeneous than the huge 30-person team of the visiting school. By contrast, the flag teams were diverse for groups of 15 kids.
We don’t live in one of the football-is-life districts. But it is Texas and the local HS has a team.
So that on top of the very real injury potential really has me hoping Kii-kitten won’t go for it. But I’ll be supportive and help anyway
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Yeah, that’s certainly what I was used to, growing up in the DFW area. 
I can’t speak to how it is for the football players here, but cheer is very different from what I’d seen (my sisters were into that, until they weren’t)
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Just say ‘no’ to cheer. That’s your job. Better for Kitten to be disappointed than brain dead.
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Or severely disabled any of many other possible ways:
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With the spread of bird flu in dairies and the fall bird migration underway, the virus will continue to have opportunities to jump to mammals and gain access to people. Officials have also expressed anxiety as seasonal flu ramps up, given influenza’s penchant for swapping genetic fragments to generate new viral combinations. The reassortment and exposure to humans increases the risk of the virus adapting to spread from human to human and spark an outbreak.
Well, that’s not encouraging…
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This effect was most stark when comparing semaglutide to the old-school diabetes injectable insulin, with patients on semaglutide showing a whopping 70 percent lowered risk of Alzheimer’s.
In the study, published in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the Case Western researchers led by biomedical informatics expert Rong Xu used medical records from patients over the age of 60 with Type 2 diabetes to run a randomized statistical analysis that mimics a clinical trial.
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Plaque build up the best predictor of cardiac incidents in subclinical people. New automated screening to become standard for more patients.
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