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 — ...

Think back to any high school or college sporting event, and you’ll probably picture the tumbles, pyramids, and tosses of cheer squads hyping up the crowd. But the sport is no longer just confined to ...

Making cheerleading safer is the mission of a brain surgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This doctor is an expert in traumatic brain injuries, something that's a risk with cheerleading. She ...