A man who paid thousands to become nine centimeters longer has unveiled the brutal impact that the painful operations had on his body.
Leon Otremba, from Germany, who stood on 171.5 cm long (5 foot 6 inches) underwent two two -year leg extension to reach 195 cm (6 foot 3 inches).
The unbearable and expensive cosmetic procedure includes the breaking of the legs, the implantation of magnetic bars and slowly stretching for several months.
But Mr Otremba, who claims that he is now the world record holder in leg extension, said that it was ‘life -changing’ and was ‘completely worth it’.
Had made his former length He feels emulated and caused problems with the body image, said the 23-year-old.
Now, in a series of videos that have been placed on his social media channels, he has seen tens of millions of times, he has shown exactly what his recovery of the controversial operations entailed.
In 2023, his first operation on its thigh increased its height by four centimeters, by using the extension of the nail (LON) method – when an internal nail is placed in the bone, which is attached to metal frames, called external fixators.
These fixators are outside the leg and are held in place by metal pens that pass through the skin and in the bone.
Leon Otremba, from Germany, who stood at 171.5 cm long (5 foot 6 inches) underwent two leg extension of two years apart to reach 195 cm (6 foot 3 inches)
The unbearable and expensive cosmetic procedure includes the breaking of the legs, the implantation of magnetic bars and slowly stretching for several months. Depicted, an X -ray of his thigh after the first operation
They have bars and screws that can be adjusted to gradually move the bone, resulting in a longer bone.
But it requires at least four to five months of recovery before it returns to daily activities, so that patients in the first instance stay in wheelchairs before moving to crutches.
The area around the fixators must be cleaned and dressed daily to prevent infection.
‘For me, the most difficult was to feel so sensitive to everything. I just wanted the days to move rapidly so that the pain would decrease. I just didn’t want to do anything, “said Mr. Otrema on YouTube video.
‘You feel under pressure, you can’t enjoy the moment because you are so sensitive to pain.
“I only slept three or four hours a night. That is fine for one or two nights, but this was months. You go crazy, I just wanted to sleep a day of eight hours.
‘After two or three hours you wake up.
‘But whatever the pain is, I knew I would achieve my goal, whatever happens. If you don’t have this mentality, don’t do it. ‘
Now, in a series of videos placed on his social media channels, he has seen tens of millions of times, he has shown exactly what his recovery of the controversial operations entails
His second operation earlier this year, the extension of his shin – brilliance – included the use of Betzbone’s intramedullary method.
This technique includes the implantation of a metal weight -bearing nail with a mechanical click system.
Patients then increase the nail length manually by clicking on their feet and legs. The modern method requires less recovery time and no external fixators.
But the procedure, afterwards, still required crutches and months of physiotherapy.
In a video that was posted immediately after the operation, he said: ‘An hour after the operation and the only pain I feel, is in my knees and ankles.
‘From one to 10 it is a three. It is manageable. ‘
A day later he said: “My legs are swollen. I have to do some exercises, pull the feet to myself five times a hour.
In another Tiktok Videeo he added: ‘In 2023 I felt too short, I was depressed because of my height.
Nails are drilled in both ends of each thigh or tibia, which is slowly plagued apart with magnets for weeks, while healing naturally, resulting in a longer bone. But it can leave patients in pain and wheelchair -bound during the process, with months of physiotherapy that is needed afterwards
‘After the operation I was afraid that I could never walk or run normally again. I trained a lot and realized that it works. I just take a lot of time.
‘I was very surprised because I was not in pain this time.
‘Foot out then inside. That is how the nail in the bone rotates and extends it.
“It’s difficult, but that’s the price I pay to be 20.5 cm longer for a lifetime.”
Official data is not stored on how many leg length procedures are performed around the world.
But clinics have reported that leg-length operations have seen a tree in recent years, with some plastic surgeons esteing that it has doubled.
That is the question of treatment that thousands of men have been transferred to social media forums to discuss their experience, to give advice to others who consider the operation.
“I am currently just over 5 feet 7 centimeters and I seriously considered a length of the operation,” said one in a Reddit -Thread with more than 2,000 members.
Yefersen Cossio, 29, said he had left unbearable pain after he had been paid to raise his length from 5ft 8 to 6ft. The operation cost around $ 175,000
“The average height in my country is around 180 cm, so I often feel briefly compared to most people around me.”
Another wrote: ‘I had done it about a year ago and had had the best year of my life since then.
“I now feel like a true young man, my stocky appearance was replaced by a more proportional, flexible and beautiful.”
A third, added: ‘My whole family is at 185 cm plus, but my mother is like 160 cm and I am 100 percent her build that made me a little shorter.
My fiancé is 170 cm plus and I sometimes feel that I am not enough. ‘
The operation has traveled a long way since it was first developed in the early 1950s as a means of treating injuries to soldiers by the Soviet doctor Gavriil Ilizarov.
The external, round frames used that were drilled into the bone, which could expand and straighten the legs.
The process works in a similar way such as internal magnetic technology, except that the telescopic bars are outside the body and can be expanded by turning the screws manually.
Mr. Cossio was shown above during the bone extension of the operation, where doctors first broke his leg bones before they implant devices that would ensure that the bones would gradually extend gradually
Nevertheless, the new process, just like every operation, is not without complications.
Joint dislocation, blood clots and a fatal state caused by oil that ends up in the lungs from the bar ends are just a few of the many potential risks.
Hamish Simpson, a surgeon and professor of orthopedics and trauma at the University of Edinburgh, does not offer a cosmetic extension, but is increasingly receiving questions from shorter men and estimates that the risk of complications is twice that is of routine procedures such as knees such as knee replacements.
He told The guardian: “I almost always try to talk out.”
Been extending patients – including a Colombian influencer who grew from 5ft 8 to 6ft – also described that they are left in unbearable pain.
Yeferson Cossio, 29, had the operation in 2023, but said it had left him so much pain that he had the feeling that he would collapse and was desperate to remove the bars.
The pain was so unbearable that it is’ constantly interrupting ‘his sleep, now only for’ about two hours [every night]Maximum, “he said.
Some men claim to have had the operation to improve their success in online dating.
Although some men believe that it will make them more attractive, others make it look like their youth heroes.
“I want to be the highest man who is alive. Short girls want tall men. Long girls want tall men, “said Mr. Otremba in another Tiktok video.
‘Before the height surgery at 171 cm I was mentioned briefly. Today I am bigger than a lift. ‘
Some studies have suggested that the length of a man can influence his mental health and even prospects for work or chance of promotion.
A Swedish study with more than 1.3 million men thought that CEOs were on average larger.
While the average man in the monster was five feet, 10.5 inches, male CEOs were on average six feet.
Another, published in the magazine The BMJ, found men with the genes who will probably lead them long, have around £ 2,940 (about $ 3,990) higher family income.
A third American study even showed that a man should earn $ 30,000 more for every centimeter under 5 foot to be seen as attractive for women in the dating market.
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