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High level gymnasts perform incredible feats that involve moving at high speed and flipping and twisting several times through the air. They also perform these skills on a wood balance beam that is 4 inches wide. In some cases, missing a catch on the bars or slamming into the beam could cause serious injury, such as dislocated elbows, broken bones, and head injury.

In addition, gymnastics involved pushing the body to and past its limit. Overuse injuries and stress fractures are prevalent in high-level gymnastics. To put it simply, the human body was not designed to do things like this: http://i2.Photobucket.com/albums/y33/tahn_cowie/BeSsOnOvA_096.jpg Constant impact and pushing natural (and lack of natural) flexibility can lead to injuries and problems later in life, like the type seen in contortionists.

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