Should you decide on limb-lengthening surgery based solely on cost?Shortly after entering university, I seriously researched ...

In a bizarre trend, many young people across the world are now spending lots of money on painful limb-lengthening surgeries – in which surgeons break the bones in their legs and stretch them apart.

Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bone stretched apart millimeter by millimeter and then spend months in recovery—all to be a few centimeters taller? This is the promise of ...

A lot has happened since so-called leg-lengthening surgeries—the process of breaking the bones in one’s legs and resetting them with a gradual extending device—were first introduced about 75 years ago ...