I've started doing contortion a while ago (about a year and a half), I guess I could say I'm pretty good at it but my father (is a doctor) was once talking to his work friend who's specializes in how the spinal cord works. Anyways, my father and him were talking and they got to the topic of contortion and gymnastics and my father told him how I do it all the time and stuff, his worker friend said that it was really unhealthy and how I could be paralyzed and how it affects the lumbar spine (whatever that is). So my father prohibited me from doing it at all.

I just want to say that whenever I start contortion, like for example, I do a normal backbend, I start not feeling my legs (they feel numb) anymore and when a get up from the back bend, my legs buckle and I can't feel them anymore and I fall down on the floor, then after like 10 seconds I can stand up again and if I do another backbend after that I don't really feel any numbness. If I try standing while I feel numb, my legs stagger sort of and it's hard but the feeling last for only a couple seconds. Just recently on YouTube I saw this video of a 5 year old girl she got paralyzed by just doing a backbend and she is trying to recover still (its still not for sure that she will recover) the video also said that eater she did the backbend, she felt numbness in her legs and couldn't stand permanently, not for just a couple seconds...but I im around (12-15) so I don't know if it'll affect me since I'm way older, or that may have nothing to do with why she became paralyzed..

When I do contortions I always have fun discovering new moves and seeing people's surprised reactions because it looks so weird, it's like the only thing I'm good at. I really like improving my fexibility, and I don't know wheather I should stop or not. There are many many other people who do contortion and have had no defects. I'm scared that something will happen and I currently can't do any contortion because my father gets angry whenever I do it and punishes me for doing contortion... I'm confused and I don't think that feeling that numbness is normal but I really enjoy being a contortionist, sometimes I stretch and the numbness is eased a bit, but it never completely leaves in the beginning. I have to do a bit of contortion moves until it completely leaves, anyways, I'm repeating myself a lot but my main question is if I contortion is actually healthy and if I can continue doing it...