Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
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Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#2I think the whole argument against this kind of procedure revolves around the fact that operations such as this are complicated, painful, dangerous and expensive.
Once cosmetic surgery is so advanced that it is simple, fast, reliable and painless will people have any issue with it?
I'd be interested to hear opinions... Would you have a cosmetic procedure done if it was not a big deal?
The next step after commonplace cosmetic procedures is routine performance enhancement! Boron carbide skeleton, here I come!
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#3I think the whole argument against this kind of procedure revolves around the fact that operations such as this are complicated, painful, dangerous and expensive. Once cosmetic surgery is so advanced that it is simple, fast, reliable and painless will people have any issue with it? I'd be interested to hear opinions... Would you have a cosmetic procedure done if it was not a big deal? The next step after commonplace…
This TED talk about performance enhancing prosthetic legs (including making you taller) covers a lot of these issues:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_...
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#4This operation sounds horrible!
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#5I think the whole argument against this kind of procedure revolves around the fact that operations such as this are complicated, painful, dangerous and expensive. Once cosmetic surgery is so advanced that it is simple, fast, reliable and painless will people have any issue with it? I'd be interested to hear opinions... Would you have a cosmetic procedure done if it was not a big deal? The next step after commonplace…
This TED talk about performance enhancing prosthetic legs (including making you taller) covers a lot of these issues: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_...
Great link! Very thoughtful talk...
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#6I believe that Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) also travelled to Russia to have one of his legs lengthened (he previously suffered from some pretty severe back problems). So there are reason for lengthening legs beyond wanting to be taller.
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#7Gattaca, anyone?
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#8If only she'd heard of high heels and platform shoes before the surgery ...
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#9This operation sounds horrible!
It looks horrible too. A family member has undergone a similar one in Russia, although in her case it was a necessity (she could not walk a mile without her feet starting hurting). They break your bones and install fixtures with metal rods driven through your feet/ankles/shins. Then they use these fixtures to control the way your bone fragments knit back together over a period of several months.
It is hard to imagine that someone would put herself through this for pure cosmetic reasons.
Re: Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
#10This likely was the method employed:
http://www.ilizarov.org.uk/content.htm
I have talked to wearers of such cages. Not fun, but they are a great alternative to amputation.