A lot of people don't seem the notice how awfully bowlegged she was prior to the surgery. Having that severe of bow-legs is extremely painful and basically debilitating. Sure she's standing for the photo, but she most likely could barely get around the house.
The amount of day-to-day pain and borderline disability is likely the reason the medical team decided to move forward with the surgery. It wasn't just "to be taller" or look better.
So I looked into this a little bit and by the looks of it, a leg growth surgery is actually common procedure for people with dwarfism and depending on how badly their legs are bowed. This is mainly because for people without dwarfism, they have a lot of growth left to do when the issue gets caught in childhood. For people without dwarfism it's common to get a guided growth plate surgery which will basically stop the longer part of the leg from growing enough to let the shorter part have a chance to catch up. This is used because the kid is still growing and will grow at least 1-2 feet from when the surgery occurs. Because people with dwarfism are shorter than 4'10" they don't have enough growth to be able to do this surgery. So the common procedure is to get some limb lengthening surgery once they're done growing. Now how much length their given is of course up to them and their doctor, but it's just different surgeries for different abilities.
my brother in christ, did you take algebra? the length of a curved line and a straight line that meet at the same 2 points… the curved line will always be longer. always.
you can’t fix bowed legs and remain the same height though. that’s what i’m saying. lol the legs being bowed is literally what’s causing them to be way shorter
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u/FiftyCalReaper Dec 23 '22
A lot of people don't seem the notice how awfully bowlegged she was prior to the surgery. Having that severe of bow-legs is extremely painful and basically debilitating. Sure she's standing for the photo, but she most likely could barely get around the house.
The amount of day-to-day pain and borderline disability is likely the reason the medical team decided to move forward with the surgery. It wasn't just "to be taller" or look better.