Height Increase Surgery
If you are looking for the a way to lengthen your legs then you can go with height increase surgery also known as the cosmetic limb lengthening. When we grow older the cartilage in our long bones fuse into solid bone preventing you from growing any taller. Height Increase surgery can help you to lengthen your leg if you reach to this point and you still want to gain few inches of additional height from your legs. This is primarily performed to correct disproportional leg lengths on children.
Height increase surgery is base on the principle of distraction osteogenesis or bone development. Gavriil A. Ilizarov developed the concept in 1951 after witnessing formation of new bone in the gap between the bone ends of those who had a leg fractures during World War 2. This initiated the research work and it came to the conclusion that limb lengthening was possible, and effective way to increase height.
During surgery, a bone that has been cut off is slowly pulled apart, and hold by metal plates with a gap between leading to new bone formation which results in an increased height. Patient's age may vary from 16 to 60 year old. Height increase of 2 to 3 inches takes on the average 10 months.
The maximum height increase is 2.5 to 3.5 inches. However, there is a 25% risk of complication as a result of using surgery to increase height. Other risks include: nerve damage, bone twisting, paralysis of the limb, breaking of the bones, bone Infection and unequal limb lengths. Recovery is very difficult and the physical therapy is nearly impossible because of the pain.
In addition to this, having the surgery to increase height done at all can be very difficult and there are only few doctors who are qualified to perform it. Making travel arrangements with the doctor to do the surgery will make the procedure even more costly. In the long run, it's better to try the safer alternatives of increasing height such as stretching exercises.
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