I am pleased to finally say that there is indeed a way to treat the great back curavtures we have found in some older individuals.

The height increase that is possible from this South Korean doctor Dr. Kim Ki-Taek from some university’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery.

From the video we would learn that Dr. Kim Ki-Taek would learn about a surgical technique from abroad in 1995 on this surgical technique and brought it back to his home country. HIs accomplishments from the video indicate that he has performed…

• Crooked Neck Corrective Surgery – South Korea’s 1st successful case without any nerve damage
• Foreign Researcher Award from Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA)
• Korean Society Of Spine Surgery

The man in the video being treated has his head about 20 cm off from where his head should be. This means that he is losing about 3-4 inches of height from not being able to lift his head up for proper posture correctly.

Dr. Ki-Taek notes that in most cases, the spine curvature will occur in the lower back area. For the patient on the video, his curvature is in the middle of the vertebrate, in the thoracic region. The surgery performed is called Corrective Surgery for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS).

The negative part about the surgery when related to height increase or height is that the physicians will remove 2 sections of the vertebrate stack so that the vertebrate that is left after the removed vertebral will be able to be repositioned for the patient’s torso and body be put back up on a up-right position. The issue is that because you are cutting away a large portion of the vertebrate, the vertebrate stacking will no longer be completely upright, but involve the vertebrate stacking on top of each other in a skewed fashion. I would guess that this would result in maybe 2-3 inches of lost height from partial vertebrate removal.

Subsequently, after the bone removal, metal screws are put into the man’s vertebrate with different sized screws for different vertebrate sections. The screws are then held together with support using a bent metal rod attach to the other ends of all of the screws, thus forcing the newly aligned vertebrate into its new way. The curved rod is thus contouring the new vertebrate curvature.

What is noted in the video is that apparently with advanced age, spinal or vertebrate curvature and issues are likely to develop. Things like Kyphosis or Lumbar Stenosis can set in and cause not just a cosmetic issue with looking shorter to hunched, but also cause great pain and decreasing the quality of life for the people suffering from these types of ailments.

At Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gang Dong located at Gangdong-gu, Seoul, in the department called Kyung Hee Spine Center it seems where Dr. Ki-Taek is located. He also treats young, still growing taller kids who might be suffering from the common back ailment of scoliosis. Scoliosis is similar to Ankylosing Spondylitis from it’s symptom of spinal and/or vertebrate curvature which causes a person to have bad posture. Dr. Kim Ki-Taek says, “We’re trying to straighten out the curvature of the spine in growing children. So we apply pressure here to stop it from bending. We can straighten the spine by tying this together. But we won’t be able to salvage any joints. In this case we have to save as many joints as possible.”

We find that the the spine curvature has changed in 2 years of the young girl patient from 12 degrees to 62 degrees. Corrective Surgery for Scoliosis has become the only option. To make allowances for the young girl’s future growth spurts, since she is still growing, Dr. Ki-Taek must calculate how much bone must be removed.

As the good doctor says, “Straightening the spine is not the sole objective.” After the operation, the young girls’ spine has been straightened satisfactorily. When her mother goes to see her after the surgery, her mother notes that not only does the girl’s back and pelvis look correct now, the patient is also 3 cms taller and her pelvis is growing correctly.

Conclusion: 

I am happy to say that through just ordinary research and searching on the internet, we have found another way to increase height using a surgical process which cures people with spinal or vertebral curvature like from those suffering from Scoliosis and Ankylosing Spondylitis.

From the Wikipedia article on Ankylosing Spondylitis we learn that this condition

From YouTube video entitled “Medical Korea | World’s first osteotomy for spine deformity”