To me, Hanoi is always beautiful. It is the place where I chose to invest my dream in – the dream of a 22-year-old girl. My parents gave me a modest height of 156 cm, I dreamt of one day…
Having a modest height and receving comparisons from people around her all the times, a 20 year old girl decided to get her legs stretched by 6cm. “I can withstand all the pain if it means I can be 6cm…
That is the story of Mrs. Nguyen Thi M who is a 36 years old woman from Hanoi. Although she has 3 children, she still wishes to be 5.6 cm tall. She sought leg lengthening surgery even though she had…
The patient with the shortest height Though it has been nearly 20 years, Assoc. Prof., Ph.D. Le Van Doan, Director of the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, 108 Military Central Hospital can still remember vividly a female patient named Hang…
Nguyen Van Minh is currently studying abroad. Because he was only 162cm tall, when he first came to a foreign country, Minh became insecure about his height in comparison to his foreign classmates. Minh even had to look up to…
Stem cells are special cells that have the capacity to self-renew and develop into specialized cells. They are also known as pluripotent cells. Up to now, there have been many studies on the application of stem cells to restore the…
Achilles tendon lengthening is usually indicated when the legs are overstretched (over 6-7cm for women and over 7-8cm for men) or during the lengthening procedure, the patient did not do any exercises or were scared to get hurt that he…
The stretching process begins on the seventh day after the fixation procedure. This is a fixator made by Dr Doan and the research team of 108 Military Central Hospital. The fixator is dedicated only for leg stretching. It was registered…
PGS.TS Lê Văn Đoàn, Viện trưởng Viện Chấn thương chỉnh hình, Bệnh viện Trung ương Quân đội 108 cho biết: What is leg lengthening? Speaking more about this method, Assoc. Prof. Le Van Doan stated that limb lengthening, particularly leg…
A study of people with short stature The notions on people with short stature varies depending on the each individual’s judgement, race and time. Short stature is only a relative concept when talking about height. We can take a person’s…