Is it true that a child's growth is stunted if they are involved in any form of gymnastics during puberty?

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I found this really interesting website about this. It seems that high level gymnasts do indeed have their growth stunted. http://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/archive/female-gymnasts-injury.html If you go to Google.com and put in 'stunted growth gymnastics ' you will get a lot of information. As a high level gymnast, I have concluded that it does stunn your growth. I disagree. I have been a gymnast for 14 years, and YES I am short but gymnastics is not the only factor involved. I did a 10 page report on this last year and concluded that 1). small children are attracted to the sport and 2.) gymnastics may play a tiny part in being a bit shorter but I would say about 95% of it is genetics. ANOTHER ANSWER: I have not checked out the abovementioned websites, But I have heard of girls and young ladies that really push themselves physically, training, doing gymnastics as well as long-distant runners who push their bodies to the MAX, have been shown to MISS a period or even two. When girls back off on the over-workouts, and listen to their bodies, their menses cycles will come back to normal. I have not read about permenant damage. Ask your doctor. Hope this heelps!! <<>>

ANOTHER ANSWER: im 15 and i did gymnastics my whole life until recently. im 5'9". so im obviously not short. but however i did start puberty late and barely have a chest but the rest of my family has HUGE chests. I dont know if they are related or not.