Can girls grow taller with posture correction?

Let me tell you the answer first. It will not allow you to really achieve "secondary height growth" by lengthening your bones, but it will definitely help you get back the height that was "stolen" by bad posture, ranging from 1 cm to 5 cm. For girls who sit for a long time and are hunched over, this "appearance of height" is even better than the actual height of a few centimeters.

When my best friend was 23 years old, she was still anxious about not reaching 160. She searched every day for height-gaining calcium supplements and miracle stretching exercises, but she spent a lot of money on her height without seeing any changes. Later, when I accompanied her for a posture assessment, I found that she had all three of them: rounded shoulders, forward pelvic tilt, and hyperextension of the knees. She has been practicing corrective movements for more than three months. She always pays attention to her height when sitting or standing. Last week, her naked height test was exactly 161. She was so excited that she threw away all the 3cm height-increasing insoles she had stored up overnight.

However, this matter is now a hot topic on the Internet. Some people posted before and after pictures, saying that they really grew 4 centimeters after the correction. Others said that this was purely a marketing gimmick, and it was all a human error caused by deliberately standing straighter when measuring height. I specifically asked the orthopedic surgeon, and he said that as long as the epiphyseal line is completely closed, the long bones will not continue to grow. The so-called "height correction" is essentially to adjust the original abnormal curvature of the spine, the offset pelvis, and the locked joint space back to normal. The normal position is just like if you completely stretched out the soft ruler that has been folded several times and then measured it. The value will definitely be larger than when it was folded, but the length of the tape itself has not changed at all. Your original true height is actually the corrected value. You just didn't stand correctly before.

If you always look short when standing next to friends of the same height. Wearing wide-leg pants of the same length that others can barely cover the top of your feet, but hanging on your ankles and causing back pain after standing for half an hour, then there is a high probability that part of your height has been stolen by your posture. In this case, it is definitely cost-effective to adjust your posture. Not only will you look taller, but your overall temperament will also be much stiffer. It is more natural than wearing ten layers of height-increasing insoles, and it can hold up anything you wear.

Of course, don’t be deceived by unscrupulous merchants. If you stand and sit upright, and there is no abnormality in your posture assessment, and you still expect to grow another 3 or 5 centimeters through posture correction, it is basically impossible. If there is a technology that can break through the epiphyseal line limit, you have already won the Nobel Prize. Do you have to collect IQ tax from selling a correction course online for dozens of dollars? I had my rounded shoulders adjusted for more than half a month. It turned out that the bare height had always been measured at 164. After the adjustment, I measured it again and it was 165.5. I was shocked at the time, but later I realized that when the shoulders are buckled, tilting the head forward will cause the entire upper body to grow. The height has been lowered by more than one centimeter. Now the shoulders are open and the head is retracted. Not only is the height measured, but the neck looks much longer when wearing a suspender. To be honest, even if the 1.5 centimeter height difference is not included, this change in temperament is worth the price of admission.