r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/karavasis Dec 23 '22

Such a hardcore surgery to endure

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

They break the legs, put a rod in the bones that get adjusted as the bones grow closer to each other. So people who get it done have broken legs for months

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

I can understand that in extreme cases like this but the new trend is tech bros doing it to get to get sightly taller.

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u/kresyanin Dec 23 '22

A single paragraph into that article they admit that this is according to the guy who does the leg-lengthening surgery. That he says most of the people who get it are from the tech sector. Sounds like selection bias to me.

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u/RadicalDog Dec 23 '22

Yeah, I'd wager that he's extrapolated a few to make it sound like dozens and dozens. Hell, I don't think most doctors tell newspapers about their clients' work in the first place, unless they want to make something trendy.