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Leg Lengthening Surgery: Is It Worth It?

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By G. Tan


Forget diet, forget HGH, exercise, increase height programs, massage, or other uncertain or marginal grow taller methods out there. The only surefire method to becoming taller is leg lengthening surgery. This is the only method that will guarantee you'll get taller. However, the process is long, arduous, incredibly painful, costly, and the risk of possible complications is high.

What is leg lengthening surgery?

Leg lengthening surgery is a surgery where the surgeon breaks your shin bones (yes, he actually breaks your bones in half) and inserts a telescoping rod. The rods then slowly pulls the bones apart as brand-new bone, nerves, skin, blood vessels, and muscle grow and fills out the space.

The rods pull the bones about one mm daily. It is pulled apart slow enough so that new bone continues to grow, but quickly enough that it does not heal entirely. The whole lengthening process takes about three months followed by three to six months of demanding physical therapy.

Recovery and pain management

The entire leg lengthening surgery procedure is very painful so proper pain management is essential. Anti-inflammatory medicine slow bone growth so the kind of pain medication you can take is restricted. This means that you need to endure the whole process with minimum pain medication.

Because of very little pain medicine, physical therapy is extremely painful, to the point where patients may quit. However, omitting it can lengthen recovery by two or three times the normal period of 3 to 6 months. It could also prevent the bone from strengthening enough so it could break shortly after.

Getting enough sleep is necessary to bone growth and recovery but will be a problem because of the pain and discomfort. Sleeping pills could work at first but they are not safe and gradually will stop working.

Complications and risks

Just like any surgery, there are considerable risks. This risk is relatively high for a leg lengthening surgery at about 25 %. Potential risks consist of: bone infection, injury to nerves/blood vessels, injury to muscles/tendons, poor bone healing, and unequal lengthening.

But contrary to a lot of the hype, significant long term issues are not common. Some medical clinics claim 0 % long term negative effects and firmly insist the treatment is safe.

Should I get leg lengthening surgery or what?

Leg lengthening costs around $85,000 in the US but significantly less abroad. You can get it for around $15,000 ~$30,000 in China, Russia, Egypt, or Brazil. India is a deal at $10,000. But would you actually go to India or Egypt, or even China for a major, life changing procedure such as this? Also, you will most likely need 1 year of expenses because you will most likely be unproductive and be unable to work throughout this time.

Even if you have the cash, you are talking one year of bed and wheelchair ridden, incredibly painful, unproductive time. However, 3 inches to a short person is a dream come true.

So if you have $100,000, can waste a year, are prepared to brave extreme pain and discomfort, can deal with agonizing physical therapy and recovery, are ready to risk the complications and possible long term damages, then go for leg lengthening surgery! Three inches really is a lot and will do wonders for your appearance and confidence.




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