Need Some Extra Height

[kalaminsa]

China puts boot down on leg-lengthening

Beijing -- China will crack down on a vast, growing and largely unregulated

industry offering leg-lengthening surgery for people who think they are too

short.

The operation involves breaking the patients' legs and stretching them on a

rack, and has led to several cases of disfigurement, the Xinhua news agency

said, citing the Health Ministry.

The surgical procedure, popular among young Chinese professionals who believe

height will help them climb the career ladder, was developed in Russia to help

patients with birth defects such as dwarfism. AFP

[kmart]

"The Rack" Used in the Spanish Inquisition, I believe?

[steveromagnino]

"The Rack" Used in the Spanish Inquisition, I believe?

There are three things you must know about the Spanish inquisition.

[britmaveric]

Who in their right mind would do smth as stupid as that and pay somebody???

[Noel]

This procedure is apparently already available in Thailand. I saw a snippet from a news report recently quoting ฿200,000 per cm.

I have no idea about success rates; probably a long shot at a stretch...

[Farma]

I saw a documentary about this a few months ago. Some of the victims ended up with horrible injuries and will never walk again. Most of them were in their late teens and early 20’s.

The procedure involved breaking the legs, waiting for the break to heal, more breaks etc until the desired height was achieved.

The height extensions some people were trying to achieve, the time frame of a year and pain they were prepared to endure was incredible, just to look taller.

[anna234cn]

Chinese like to be higher. I dunno why.

Fortunately, I am still growing. I grew nearly 2cm this early yr w/o using any medicine.

I think drink more milk, eat more meat, sleep more and do some sports will help.

[mike_l]

I remember reading an article about this a while back, and apparently one of the reasons it was so popular in China is that many jobs and university courses have minimum height limits attached to them, even though there was usually no practical reason to do so. For someone under 155cm, say, then getting a decent education and job is much much harder. So it's not always just a vanity surgery apparently.