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Posted on April 1, 2009 in Grow Tall
Surgery often used to increase one’s height. Other methods such as exercise, yoga, proper nutrition etc are there, but at times people may have to resort to surgery. How does surgery impact height?
Limb Lengthening Surgery for Height:
Height can be increased by surgery through limb lengthening. This is often performed on children who may have one leg shorter than the other. The idea is to make both the legs proportionately the same so that the height can be maintained. In other words, surgery can help increase or rather maintain height.
Limb lengthening surgery was successfully performed for around 50 years in Kurgan, Russia. This was developed by Gavriil A. Ilizarov. In 1951 after he observed that many World War II veterans had leg fractures that did not heal.
Gavriil developed an external fixation which was framed around the leg being aware that the fracture compression would stimulate the healing of the bone, he built a frame that had this capacity. Gavriil had asked a patient to slowly compress the non-union by turning the rod. But had turned it the other direction causing facture distraction. Gaviil was surprised to see the formation of the new bone in the gap between the bone ends. This led to further research and it was believed upon that limb lengthening was possible, which was both safe and effective.
Italian surgeons improved and performed the surgery in early 1980s and in Lecco, Italy a large center developed. In 1988, the first cosmetic limb lengthening was performed in the United States. Although, initially U.S. surgeons were skeptical about it, but eventually, they found it safe and effective.
It is quite obvious that surgery can add inches to your height. It can help in making the legs proportionately the same for a person to walk comfortably, without limping. Limping would generally make you look shorter.
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