More Men Having Surgery to Make Themselves Taller

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    bladerunner

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    2 years ago 05/06/2022 4:50pm EDT
    re: OTOH

    OTOH wrote:

    How much will his marathon time improve?

    Having femurs 3" longer should make his stride length longer with faster times if he can keep his cadence the same. If it works, i say go for broke and do the same operation on his lower legs.

    Will the iaaf allow osteo-doping as a mental TUE?

    You'd think it would be an advantage. The problem is: your hamstrings are suddenly stretched way too much for the longer bones. I guess having a lot of flexibility is a must to even have the surgery done.

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    2 years ago 05/06/2022 4:59pm EDT
    re: rosewc

    rosewc wrote:

    Great image, thanks for posting this, grassrunner. I mean it.

    Thanks, pretty interesting stuff. You have to wear those external fixator frames for many weeks because a gradual lengthening is performed (1mm/day which after completed to length then requires more weeks to wait for full consolidation of the new bone growth. This long time in the frames can drive some people to such frustration they try to remove them prematurely by themselves (called "cage rage"). Anyhow, the guy I'm linking below, Dror Paley, MD, is one of the best at this stuff in the world. I've attended a few of his lectures and done a quite a number of static frame procedures myself for other indications (mostly diabetic Charcot foot and ankle reconstructions). There are a lot of potential complications associated with this procedure:

    paleyinstitute.org
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    No one wants unexpected problems, complications, and cost. For these reasons, we are very conservative regarding many aspects of the limb lengthening process. Dr. Paley is vigilant about anticipating problems and preventing c...
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