I think this question is something that has to be addressed at some point if we are really serious about looking for a way to grow taller without cutting open say our leg or skin too much. I think it is time to look at whether this desire to have a really non-invasive approach is even feasible from the type of technology we have to work with in the modern medical technology.

From my searching on the boards and forums around the internet from people who want to grow taller, they almost all say that they only want to go the non-invasive approach and would not do any type of surgery for it. What most people still are hoping for is some type of supplement, vitamin, or Miracle Pill that would do all the work for them without them needing to put any type of effort, will, or work into it.

However this type of mentality is so prevalent that we can see the sam type of people who might wish to loss weight. If some company right now could create some type of Miracle Pill to be able to make them instantly shed the 10 lbs that they so desperately want without any type of negative side-effects and requires nothing like strenuous exercise, they would be making a lot of money.

However from what I have seen that doesn’t seen reasonable, for weight loss and definitely not for height increase. At least for people with closed growth plates.

At the current stage of technology we are at right now, there area very few options to change tissue in vivo without cutting into it.

Here is what I know can be done for bones…

1. You can increase bone growth but only in terms of bone weight density (BWD) using pill form like Statin. The company Zymogenetics about a decade ago did have a pill made from statin derivative which does grow bones, but don’t actually change their overall shape and volume. A post was written about this at “The Bone Growth Pill From Zymogenetics“. The pill was created to be used for people with osteoporosis, which is where the bone density of a person, usually older females decrease a lot causing them to become more susceptible to bone fractures, joint problems, and similar pathologies.

2. You can increase the bone density again from mechanical loading, like what is done with Lateral Synovial Joint Loading.

3. You can increase bone density from vigorous exercise and being taking up a sport to play, as seen from many PubMed  studies, whether they are for tennis, soccer, or football. I refer the reader to the article “Enhanced bone mass and physical fitness in prepubescent footballers”

4. You can increase bone width or thickness from short bursts of dynamic mechanical loading. This type of idea and method was used for the idea over shoulder bone widening, which I wrote about in the post “Review Of Claim To Widen Shoulder Bone, Lengthen Forearms, And Lengthen Lower Legs”

5.  You can increase the cortical bone layer thickness in long bone by consistent vigorous exercise and/or training. This is seen in studies like “THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON BONE DENSITY AND BONE GEOMETRY IN MEN”

6. You can increase bone length with growth plates using growth hormone injections or growth hormone-releasing hormone injections.

7. You can increase bone length with growth plates by using aromatizing inhibitors like Anavar and Letrozole.

The problem starts when there is no cartilage layer that transversely cuts across the long bone left. The ossification and calcification caused cartilage to turn into bone. With a long tubular bone with very high tensile and compressive strength in the range of something like stainless steel, is there something that current modern medicine or biomedical engineering technology which can stretch those long bones.

Note: Here we are not going to look at the overall height contribution dur to the vertebrate column but focus only on the long bones like the femur and tibia.

Tyler from HeightQuest.com had shown from an old post that the hard, strong characteristic of the bones, made of hydroxyapatite was the limiting factor. Bone is what is preventing people from increasing their height. This is sort of common sense. Bones are hard and you can’t really stretch them out.

I had proposed that the real limiting factor may actually be the skin, ligaments, blood vessels, and whatever other non-bone tissue that surrounds the actual bone is the limiting factor. The element which I think is the real problem is that people are not willing to accept that idea that maybe we should look into a surgical alternative to the limb lengthening surgery.

However if we really wanted to find a relatively simple way for non-invasiveness, we may have to first realize what is possible for noninvasive techniques.

So…”What Type Of Non-Invasive Or Minimal Invasive Surgical And Medical Techniques Are Currently Available? ”

From this page HERE found from Charles Sturt University 

Medical technology – Bionics – Non-invasive medical techniques

• Non-invasive surgery refers to the performing of a surgical technique without making an incision in the skin at all. The removal of gallstones using laser treatment is an example of a non-invasive technique currently in use.
• Non-invasive diagnostic techniques include ultrasound, x-rays, thermography and magnetic resonance imaging.
• Minimally invasive refers to techniques that are performed by making the smallest practical incision in the skin

For Non-Invasive Surgical techniques…

1. Laser 
2. High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFUS or FUS)
3. Extracorporeal Shockwaves (ESW) 

For Non-Invasive Diagnostic techniques…

1. X-rays -are used mostly for producing images of bones and joints
2. ultrasound – a technique in which high-pitched (ultra) sound waves are projected onto tissues under examination. The waves are reflected, captured and registered electronically as an image we can see
3. thermography – Thermography, or digital infra-red thermal imaging (DITI), is a diagnostic technique which allows the examiner to map and quantify changes in skin surface temperature.
4. magnetic resonance imaging. – Magnetic resonance imaging is a technique of scanning the body. It is based on the fact that living tissues give off their own special electromagnetic signals, depending on the water content of the tissue. If the tissue is subjected to a large external magnetic field, the small electromagnetic signals may be detected and built up to form a 3D image. MRI is a popular diagnostic technique, as it ignores bones (as they contain little water), concentrating on soft tissue. In this respect, MRI is the opposite of x-rays, which tend to concentrate mainly on the bones.

For minimally invasive techniques…

1. keyhole surgery – is a recently developed form of minimally invasive surgery. A small incision is made in the skin, and specially designed surgical tools are inserted through the incision to perform the required tasks. A small camera is also inserted into the hole so the surgeon can see what to do.
2. endoscopy – 
3. microsurgery –

We can see that these are all the devices and technology we have right now to treat pathologies in medicine or use for cosmetic body remodeling. I would recently write up about the possibility of using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Surgery in the post “Increase Height And Grow Taller Using Magnetic Resonance Image, MRI Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Surgery, FUS (Big Breakthrough!)”

this idea posed was unique in that it allowed for the ability to cut and do surgery on the inside of the body without touching the tissue on the outside covering it. The MRIgFSU idea was the most promising of all the non-invasive ideas, although I have looked into Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESW aka ESWT) as well as microfracture surgery as a way to eventually lead to a procedure on height increase.

When I think about why so many people are looking for a non-invasive approach, I wonder whether it could be because they want to do the techniques or exercises in the comfort and privacy of their own homes, without other people like doctors and medical professional from knowing about it. It might not be a fear of the needle, the knife, or going on the surgery table for height increase they are not interested in, but more of the social pressure and aspect on using a technique which will take the skills of a qualified physician.

This means that even if I create the perfectly theoretical sound invasive procedure for height increase after growth plate closure, it will still have two big hurdles to overcome.

1. First ,the entire medical community and establishment will attack, analyze, and criticize the technique until a large enough group of surgeons are willing to take up the risk and perform the surgery to prove the idea does work.

2. Second, it would require the person who wants a non-invasive way to gain height in their home with them individually doing it to accept the idea that they will need to pay thousands of dollars to a group of medical professionals to cut open their body. People want the easy, fast, simple way to do something and maybe this endeavor just does not have the easy, non-invasive path.