Can I become any taller

[TxRugby_8]

you could walk on your tippy toes from now on

 

[ariolanine]

if you are willing to go through a year of pain and not walking, docs can stretch your bones and give you about four inches.

 

[Jxaxsxe530]

they did a study. yoga stretching can increase your height by 1.5-2 inches max. it is not permanent increase however, becuz yoga stretches and straightens ur joints to make you taller, and if u dont keep doing yoga u go back to ur normal height.

 

[DBCooper]

There is also a surgical procedure that breaks the legs, then attaches pins horizontally into the leg, attached to a halo that you stretch the broken bone with-by seperating the break over awhile. Very painful and possible nerve damage but it works. Russian doctors came up with it.

 

[kidvilla]

there is a dark side to growth because nowadays, there are doctors in Mexico who will chemically castrate young boys in order to maximize growth. the concept is quite the opposite of what anyone here would want, and that is to lower serum androgens to the lowest they can be, thereby slowing down the maturation process. this process is not without its risks, the greatest which is depression from the chemical imbalance, but for the most part, young boys can grow from 6-12 inches, and for a young boy who's father is only 5 feet tall, well, having a son who can be 6-2 may convince many that the risk is well worth it.

rather than increase GH production, they reduce testosterone production with some of the same contraceptives used by women like Depo-Provera in order to inhibit Testosterone Production. The idea is actually rather old and has been around for close to 50 years, but given the political climate then and now, it is doubtful to ever take hold here, or in Mexico, but if you ask around, you can eventually find the doctors to do it.

as for growth after maturation of the epiphyses, there have been attempts (i believe in France and Italy mostly) to increase growth by way of mechanical "braces" which force the bone to grow. as i understood it though, this was an extremely painful process and the person who had it done was always walking in pain due to the stretching that is being forced on the femur, tibia and fibula, and frankly, the quality of life that is limited and the risk of bone decalcification if done wrong is a frightening though ....

but , being a short person myself who nearly a decade ago seriously considered such options, i can assure you that such methods exist, and little by little will be improved.... will they be popular? probably not, but they are there ...

 

[kidvilla]

I also read about the process of breakage, but the amount of downtime required (you cannot walk on broken legs) and the risk for both decalcification and tibial/fibial/femural deformation (you'll have lumpy legs) and necrosis is something that has not been worked out. the idea is very interesting though and just like in the Movie Gattaca, it may be a process in the future, but for now, this appears to be the most difficult method to consider when you keep in mind the risk-to-benefit ratio (which is low for all three of these methods, but this one is lowest by far)....

i guess there is a dark side to everything ...

 

[Egresser]

Try this.... http://growtaller.com

 

[kidvilla]

this site provides information on the surgery ... it seems that it is now a standard practice in america, but again, the emotional price you pay and the purgatory you will go through may cause you to reconsider
http://www.shortsupport.org/Health/Leg-Lengthening/index.html