Break the femur to gain a few more centimeters in height, it has become popular among men who believe that being taller can bring them greater advantages in their personal lives and even improve their self-esteem.
“Women generally don’t date men who are shorter than them.. The hardest thing sometimes was feeling that he was not going to find a wife”, mentioned a British man for the BBC who decided to have the operation to gain a little more height.
According to the story that this man gave to the British media, undergo the operation gave him 8 centimeters more height, going from measuring 1.62 meters to 1.70 meters. The intervention is as follows: first the femur is broken to leave a space between the bones, which it has been observed that this bone tends to fill, and it is right there when the extra centimeters are achieved.
According to the BBC, the technique was born following the Second World War when Gavril Ilizarov, a distinguished Soviet physician observed that the femur expanded to “Fill” the gap left following a fracture.
“Then Ilizarov developed a technique that consisted of breaking the bone, but without compromising the part known as the periosteum (which is the outer part of the bone), separate it a bit and wait for the bone itself to take care of occupying the space that was in between, ”says the BBC.
The technique applied by the Soviet doctor was practiced on the soldiers who they were mutilated by effects of the war. Although the technique has advanced and is now applied for aesthetic purposes, the risks remain the same.
This is the concern of some sectors of the medical community that reiterates that it is possible that nerve damage occurs, clots are generated that come from other parts of the body and prevent blood from flowing, which is also known as arterial embolisms or in the worst case than bones don’t merge once more.
In the case of invasive cosmetic operations of this type that go well, one must also wait approximately one month for get the patient to walk once more and the gradual recovery of legs should be done with physiotherapy therapies.
The BBC note points out that all the specialists consulted on the subject pointed out the same aspects: that it was a complex, expensive, high-risk operation with an extensive recovery processwhich has to be supervised by specialists.
