Hello all.I am a new member,this is my first post.As the title and my username suggests it,I have a pretty uncommon "flaw" :I am a male being at 5'1'' (wait for it...now you can laugh!),who considered leg lenghtening on many occasions,but..I am already out of proportion,and this gives me a hard time.
My legs are SO much longer than my torso,I wear pants like my 6' friends and I have a similar(or even smaller) sitting height than children.Plus long arms.You can imagine how I look.So what solutions do I have in this matter,because add even one inch on my legs and people will think that I am a giraffe,wait actually I am 
And the fact that I am a male even worsens things,usually women are long-legged,but imagine a short little wimpy girl being TALLER than you,and also when you sit next to her at a desk she towers over you.
I was thinking along the lines of lenghtening my torso somehow,though I don't know if it's possible.I heard that some people with very slouched/bent backs and scoliosis/kyphosis etc could actually gain a few inches from surgery.My back is pretty slouched and bent tbh,my spine forms an "S",but I don't really know if I too could gain a few inches from this type of surgery.
I am very depressed because of my body,I'm wandering "Why me?",and if I had a longer torso and short legs than LL would be an option.But now...I don't really know what to do.I await your suggestions,please help me out.
Thanks!
Quote from: Wannabegiant on June 19, 2014, 03:05:06 PMYou should definitely look into scoliosis treatment in case you have that, it could potentially give you some inches like you mentioned.
There is also glucosamine sulphate supplement that might increase you torso with a couple cm by taking it daily for some months if you are lucky, most people only gain some mm from it though.
I don't think I have scoliosis,even though my back is not very straight,it forms an "S" if you look from the side.
I looked up glucosamine and it seems promising:glucosamine+stretching daily could add an inch or two in height,so it's worth trying out,thanks.
Quote from: Hallijah on June 19, 2014, 03:09:11 PMI'm like You but with the only difference , i am 5'10 and My femurs are noticeably longer than my tibias, check your proportions between legs, because in clothes u can hide that as you say your arms are long so femurs would be an option because in clothes , they will hide part of your femurs and lengthening them will make for it
Well you are lucky to have that height.You're not tall,but you aren't a dwarf like me.Yes my arms are long but so are my legs,especially my femurs:just to give you an idea,when I bend down in a certain position to tie my shoes,my femur is approx. two times longer than my torso,and my tibias are pretty long in relation to my body,but significantly shorter then my femurs.To be honest,I don't think that a leg lenghtening surgery might do any good,it would do more harm and although I already look comical,LL would make me look like a child of a spider and a giraffe.Gosh Just out of curiosity,did you ever measure your sitting height?
Quote from: Tall on June 19, 2014, 03:30:32 PMIf you post a picture of your proportions, we will be able to give you advice that is less generalized and more specific to your case. Good luck. I hope safe torso lengthening techniques emerge soon for people such as yourself, but, realistically, I don't see it happening for at least a decade. There just isn't a market or medical need for it on a large scale.
I don't have any pictures of myself because of embarassment and shame.But I found this: #t=18 .That's not me obviously,but I look very much like him when I squat down,maybe I have even longer legs.
I hope too that torso lenghtening techniques will emerge as soon as possible.A decade is not a horrificly long time,let's hope that it won't take a century and only a decade.
Quote from: TheRisingShorty on June 19, 2014, 03:34:57 PMGo and get evaluated by a spinal orthopaedic surgeon. If you have a slouched back then you may gain several cm or inches by developing a proper posture. I don't know if there is any surgery to treat a slouched back but there are certain back and shoulder exercises/stretches to correct it. But as I mentioned before, it is best to see a orthopaedic surgeon.
I will do just that mate,let's hope I will gain a few cms.
@kirp1 I may have kyphosis,and even anterior pelvic tilt too,but only a specialist and an X-ray can tell that eventually.
@Tall I will make 20 this year,do you really think that my spine can still grow?I hit my macros every day,undereating is not an issue
@Bilateraldamage I have both,I am a short guy and my torso is disproportionately small so I can tell you there's no "better" from these two,maybe lesser and greater evil.
In conclusion,what I will do:I will visit an orthopaedic surgeon,as you suggested to see if my posture can be corrected and if I can gain anything on my torso.Also I will buy glucosamine sulphate,and do stretching(mostly hanging from a pull-up bar with straps).I hope for the best,but honestly I can't see myself gaining more then 1 inch.Thank you for all the answers.
It may sound grotesque,but I am happy that I'm not alone in this situation.I showed this forum to my brother,and together we browsed it quite a lot,and we found out the following:the inseam,wingspan and sitting height are pretty important to determine proportions,so we measured ourselves.
My sitting height is 45 cm,my inseam(from balls lol) is 89(!!!) cm or 35 inch and my wingspan is 170,so over my height.
My brother,who is 6'1'' (184,5 cm) has the following measurements:sitting height 93.5 cm,inseam same as mine 88-90 cm,and a wingspan of 190 cm.What do you think about our proportions?
And btw Tall,you mentioned earlier that you hope for safe torso lenghtening techniques.What is your opinion on this,how could this be achieved?I am very eager to discuss this with somebody,if nothing else just pure theory lol.
I know that old forum is not a very reliable forum,but this is still interesting: http://www. /index.php?PHPSESSID=07981ef4ec31b50a5fd336f36590dd95&topic=1487.0
Quote from: Rick52 on June 20, 2014, 12:03:18 PMYour brother looks perfectly proportional to me with nice long leggs. Perhaps somewhat over average long, but definitely not disproportional.
Your numbers are hard to believe. (I do believe you, but it's just hard to imagine what it looks like). As a LL candidate I've done mutch research on proportions and practical stuff, but this is a first time to me.
Your bodyheight minus 35" floor inseam gives the torso of a 4' child(?).
What jeans size (W) and shirts are you wearing?
Well my brother is quite proportional,that's what I think too,this is why I don't understand why I am such a freak.
You're right,those numbers are indeed hard to believe because I gave the wrong values.For the sitting height I measured only my torso and for the inseam I measured my jeans length.After that I measured myself correctly but accidentally posted the wrong values.
So the correct sitting height is 70 cm and an inseam of 80.Sorry for the mistake,those numbers were quite insane lol
I'm quite fat so my jeans size is 32/32 and I wear XS or rarely S in T shirts.
You made me quite curious about the average inseam and sitting height:can I find info about this?I found this but am not sure how accurate is it http://ww2.valdosta.edu/~jnienow/height.html
Also guys,there is no chance for me to add at least one extra inch to my torso?Help me out please,I really need it.Is there any research on this topic?
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