Height Increase surgery

[lookingforanedge]

Inferior extremity lengthening procedures aren't as uncommon as one might otherwise believe. Many people have had them without complications... just usually not on both limbs (e.g. not cosmetic). Already in my short stint in the medical field, I've seen a couple of patients with the hardware from these operations. I thought the technology to allow for this was pretty incredible.

If you've been considering this for awhile and perceive it will give you a better quality of life, are aware of risks/limitations and you have the extra cash and time to allow for recovery, I would go talk with a surgeon...

What are your thoughts on any other performance enhancing items to aid in the recovery and to help form the new bone growth.

I assume all the patients that get these procedures are not familiar with tha aids that we can get our hands on. I would obviously speak with the surgeons about specific compounds but I imagine just by adding a simple test and gh cocktail that the results would be dramatic comapred to regular recovery rates.

I know they say around 6-12 months recovery based on the length increased as well as the individual but what would you guess that adding some aas and other growth factors could do to speed this process up.

You always hear about athletes coming back from serious surgeries in record times. Don't think for a minute that they don't use these compunds as aids in their recovery process.

Would IGF help?

 

[Tweakle]

I couldnt imagine doing squats after that.. apart from the brittle old lady bones in your legs not only would your levers be totally changed but the muscle attatchments would be all fucked up, and you're setting up for a lifetime of chronic pain and imbalances. Nasty.

 

[solidspine]

10 cm, thats about 1/2 inch? not much,

 

[lookingforanedge]

10 cm, thats about 1/2 inch? not much,

10cm is 3.9 inches so lets just round up to 4 inches.

 

[lookingforanedge]

I couldnt imagine doing squats after that.. apart from the brittle old lady bones in your legs not only would your levers be totally changed but the muscle attatchments would be all fucked up, and you're setting up for a lifetime of chronic pain and imbalances. Nasty.

This is def a concern that I have. It sounds like everyon has been able to return to the old strength they had in terms of bone stability etc but I am not sure if they are talking about athletes that squat and train as hard as some on this board.

That is still a big what if question have myself.

 

[lookingforanedge]

Lets just say that you could perform some surgery or take some drug that would forever change your set point to a certain weight. In other words you have always been 200lbs but you could take a drug that in 6 months would have you at 250 and ripped....would you consider it?

You would have to be in bed rest but after the 6 months or so you would be walking around with 50 extra lbs of muscle that would never go away.

 

[nisser512]

This is def a concern that I have. It sounds like everyon has been able to return to the old strength they had in terms of bone stability etc but I am not sure if they are talking about athletes that squat and train as hard as some on this board.

That is still a big what if question have myself.

Who's everyone? I'm almost 100% positive that bodybuilders/weightlifters aren't getting these done as you'd likely never be able to squat again. The majority of people getting these procedures are people with uneven limbs as that's a valid reason considering it can stress your skeletal system.

 

[solidspine]

10cm is 3.9 inches so lets just round up to 4 inches.

1 centimeter = 0.393700787 inches, I guess you are correct, I must have been thinking about mm?

 

[lookingforanedge]

Who's everyone? I'm almost 100% positive that bodybuilders/weightlifters aren't getting these done as you'd likely never be able to squat again. The majority of people getting these procedures are people with uneven limbs as that's a valid reason considering it can stress your skeletal system.

I agree these are people with deformities and abnormal heights not BB.

I will say that I am not looking to be a pro BB either though. I will talk to the docs and see if they have ever had any athletes. I vaguely remember reading about basketball players in some countries doing this.

 

[lookingforanedge]

1 centimeter = 0.393700787 inches, I guess you are correct, I must have been thinking about mm?

Yeah I used a coversion site just to double check.

4 inches would be amazing but......