Cheerleading: A full-contact sport fraught with peril

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A stunt gone wrong — it’s every cheerleader’s worst nightmare.

Dr. Bashir Zikria, an assistant professor of sports medicine at Johns Hopkins, never will forget the first time he came face to face with a teenager whose life had been forever changed by an acrobatic flip that landed way out of control.

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