Don't want to do leg surgery, well, this could be another option for short folks

[theking]

...but then again, this may only be really effective for folks that are still growing..? :

Dr. Lin Ming, a specialist at Wuhan Union Hospitals’ Pediatric Endocrinology Department, lamented that parents have become too concerned about their children’s height.

Rise of growth hormone use on children in China alarms health experts


Chinese health experts are raising concerns about the growing interest among parents to use synthetic human growth hormones on their children.

Local media outlets cited by The Epoch Times reported that the Beijing Children’s Hospital had almost doubled its endocrinologis t consultations since July, over 90 percent of which were parents inquiring about their children’s height. In some of the cases, the parents even ask the specialists directly to inject their children with “height boosting shots.”

The injections, which produce bone growth and development similar to results from the growth hormone produced naturally in humans, are prescribed by specialists to children whose growth plates were not properly fused and are found to have growth hormone deficiencies. The treatment is also offered to children with known medical conditions, such as Turner syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome and short bowel syndrome.

The demand for “height boosting shots” has become such a growing trend in other parts of China in recent years that health experts are sounding the alarm for potential abuse of growth hormone prescriptions.