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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Should You Use Surgery To Increase Height?

By mbedakaupitt

Are you tired of feeling small? You would be surprised how much a wardrobe alteration and a change of attitude can do! These arent the only ways to make your body taller"by keeping a healthy diet and good posture, you can even prevent many bone damaging ailments that often occur as you age, including shrinkage.

Lets discuss why this doesnt work. When we are infants, our bones are still mostly cartilage. As we grow gradually, this cartilage hardens and melds into hard adult bones, which is why we have considerably less bones than we do when were babies. While we hit puberty, cartilage growth plates located on the ends of our longer bones causes those bones to lengthen slowly. Exercising regularly during this time can enhance your height, but once your bones stop growing, no amount of stretching will make them grow again.

In fact, the only way to lengthen your bones once you reach adulthood is to have surgery performed. However, this is extremely difficult and has several risks involved. You must be thoroughly psychologically evaluated before undergoing the test. Its also difficult to find a doctor who has the experience necessarily to perform this.

During the surgery, your legs are broken and metal plates secured to hold the bone in place with a gap between them. Over the course of several months, your bones gradually grow together to fill the gap. However, as you can imagine, the recovery time for such a surgery takes a very long time, and you may need physical therapy afterward. The risks involve the bones healing wrong. They can heal in a way that results in the bone being warped for life. Other risks involve paralysis, nerve damage, and even death.

Your posture is very important, and not just for appearances. Sitting with your back straight and your shoulders back does make your body taller, but its also very important for your bones and muscles as well, particularly your back.

In addition to this, having the surgery to increase height done at all can be immensely difficult. There are few doctors who are qualified to perform it. As the surgery is very, very expensive, finding such a doctor and making the travel arrangements to have the surgery performed will only make an already financially crippling procedure even more costly. - 17274

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