Risk of Injury
Pediatric Emergency Care shared an incident of a cheerleader. While doing the splits, a cheerleader, who had performed the splits many times before, did it just like any other time and heard a pop. Exaggerated forces were applied to the muscle-bone junction when the splits were performed. Afterwards she walked with a limp and had pain in her gluteus maximus.
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