No More Mal-Kahn-Tent - External Tibias - Dr Parihar

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Quote from: YourSpaceBoyfriend on May 18, 2017, 09:22:06 PMJust out of curiosity, what's the threshold for being short stature in US?

In most environments, I think 5'7 is the threshold where people won't point out your height as something to ridicule, like "wow, you're really short" or "hey shorty", even though it's still shorter than average. I've been to a lot of places since my CLL and not once has my height been mentioned even though I'm rarely the tallest in a group.

For official records that list you as "genetic short stature", I'm not sure what the cutoff is. Maybe under the US average height of 5'9" I'd guess.

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Thanks for updating. You may not know, I have been reading your diary for a long time. Was worried about you. Hope you will be completely fine soon. I have even met Dr Mangal parihar and Dr suhas shah. Planning to go with dr Suhas shah since the cost of surgery is low with him.
My height is 160 cm ,Which is short even in India ( I'm from India) . But as I don't want any complications I'm only thinking of doing 5 or 6 cms on my tibias. Do you think there will be much difference if I lengthen only 5 cms?
I'm sorry for asking but you seem like the most reasonable person to ask suggestions from. Should I only target for 5 cms or 6 cms? Please answer... take care!

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6 cm is very good amount. I think is with 6 cm when you feel taller than before.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on May 19, 2017, 05:26:35 PMFor official records that list you as "genetic short stature", I'm not sure what the cutoff is. Maybe under the US average height of 5'9" I'd guess.

I mean here to be officially short stature(at the point that you can receive hormone treatment for example) you need to be under 5'6(167cms) and people in poland are a bit taller than in US.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on May 19, 2017, 05:26:35 PMFor official records that list you as "genetic short stature", I'm not sure what the cutoff is. Maybe under the US average height of 5'9" I'd guess.

Eh? Pretty sure at 5'8'', no doctor or medical record will ever refer to you as having "genetic short stature".

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"Compared with a well-nourished, genetically relevant population, short stature is defined as a standing height more than 2 standard deviations (SDs) below the mean (or below the 2.5 percentile) for sex."

This is a quote I got from this website: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/924411-overview#a1

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Quote from: google42 on May 20, 2017, 09:11:30 PM"Compared with a well-nourished, genetically relevant population, short stature is defined as a standing height more than 2 standard deviations (SDs) below the mean (or below the 2.5 percentile) for sxx."

This is a quote I got from this website: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/924411-overview#a1

Looks like this is the answer then.

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Genetic short stature is different of course from short or less than average.

I am sure the threshold would be 1.60 for a man or maybe even less.
An 1.65 man is completely normal, just short.
An 1.55 man on the other hand (except maybe asians) may included in what we call short stature syndrome.

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hi kilokhan. i read your diary and found that you stayed in maharana hotel. did they ask u for any proof of visit or anything like thiat for long stay? if i take a hotel i do not want to tell the hotel people i want to do surgery to increase my height   

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Quote from: Body Builder on May 20, 2017, 10:42:22 PMGenetic short stature is different of course from short or less than average.

I am sure the threshold would be 1.60 for a man or maybe even less.
An 1.65 man is completely normal, just short.
An 1.55 man on the other hand (except maybe asians) may included in what we call short stature syndrome.

The threshold is always below 3rd percentile for particular population. Then youre talking about short stature which in most cases is a idiopathic short stature.