The height of a child's figure is not only one of the important indicators to evaluate the growth, development and health of a child, but also related to the figure of an adult, thus affecting the choice of career and mate selection. Recently, there are many recruitment conditions in our country, requiring male height 175 cm and female height 160 cm. After investigation, Dr. Day Wilson of Stanford University in the United States believes that tall children generally score higher than short children in IQ tests. Therefore, the height of children is a common concern of parents. With the development of Japanese economy, the height of children has increased compared with the past. For example, a survey in 1990 showed that children aged 1950 were taller than their peers 17.6 cm, and children aged10 were taller than their peers 40 years ago 14 cm. Although children in Japan are getting taller and taller, there are more and more overweight and nearsighted children.
From a medical point of view, the height of a person mainly depends on the development of long tubular bones. Generally speaking, the growth period of bones is 18-20 years for males and 16- 18 years for females. At the end of bone growth, because the epiphysis is closed, it no longer grows. It is impossible to predict a child's future height by observing the appearance of various long bones and ossification points. In order to grow taller, various measures must be taken before the end of the bone growth period to achieve the effect. At the end of bone growth, no matter what measures are taken, people will not grow tall.
In order to make your child grow taller, you must first understand the various reasons that affect your child's height, and then eliminate these influencing factors in a targeted manner. At present, the heightening technologies adopted at home and abroad can be summarized as follows:
(1) hormone therapy. For children with short stature due to endocrine dysfunction, growth hormone can be used for treatment. According to observation, children can grow 5- 12 cm every year, and can be treated between 3 years old and 18 years old, or may be used until the end of development. However, the use of growth hormone should not exceed one and a half or two years, and the effect will be reduced if it continues to be used. American experts suggest that only short children with low natural growth hormone secretion and kidney disease need to be injected with growth hormone, and short children generally do not need this treatment.
(2) Eliminate stress. Parents should take good care of their children, let them live in a warm and stress-free environment and promote their physical and mental development, which will help them grow taller.
(3) treating diseases. When a child is indirectly affected by various diseases, as long as the child's primary disease is cured, his height can grow normally.
(4) prevent damage. Parents should be careful to protect their children's heads from damage. In the early infancy, children should be given physical exercise to enhance their resistance to various diseases. As long as there are no endocrine diseases that seriously affect the height and bone development within two or three years after the child is born, the child's symmetrical physique can be maintained for life.
(5) Adequate nutrition. Mothers should strengthen nutrition during pregnancy to ensure that the fetus has sufficient nutrition. Pay attention to feeding after birth, so that children can get comprehensive nutrition. Children should not only eat eggs, milk, fish, meat and beans rich in protein and trace elements, but also eat fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins. Children should be educated not to be partial to food, so as not to cause malnutrition and affect their growth and development.
(6) Appropriate exercise. Targeted physical therapy and physiotherapy should be taken during the child's growth period. If you appropriately increase the amount of children's jumping, running, pulling and gymnastics, you can promote your child's body to grow taller. Because exercise can not only promote the secretion of growth hormone, but also stimulate periosteum and articular surface through traction and friction, thus promoting the growth and development of bone cells and making the body taller. For example, the former Soviet high jump champion Rusgantam Ahmetov stopped growing at the age of 14, and was as tall as 16. At this time, under the guidance of coach Victor Alexei Yevich Lonsky, he carried out targeted physical exercises, such as thinking about growing taller every day and completing the special exercises prescribed by the coach for three years rain or shine.
(7) extend the light. The longer the sun shines, the more beneficial it is to the growth and development of the body, because ultraviolet rays in the eyes can make the skin synthesize vitamin D3, which is an indispensable substance for bones to absorb calcium and has the function of promoting calcification and growth. Dare to let children receive more sunshine outdoors, which will help them grow taller.
(8) ensure sleep. Because the secretion of growth hormone increases during sleep, ensure that children have enough sleep time. Therefore, the child should go to bed before 9 pm, hoping that the child will grow taller.
(9) high in form and meaning. Practice has proved that the method of improving height with form and spirit has obvious effect on promoting children's height growth. The main points of Zhao Binjie's practice to improve form and meaning are:
① Prepare posture. Stand up straight, feet together, hands drooping, eyes looking straight ahead.
(2) Lift the heel and pull it out. Raise your hands straight above your head and pause your palms for 2 ~ 3 seconds; I didn't feel any external force on my head, so I gently pulled my body up and slowly lifted my heel at will.
(3) Buckling technique. Take a big step with your left leg and raise your hands straight up. Then, the hands of the upper body are bent forward by about 90, and the arms are straight forward. Pause for 2 ~ 3 seconds and imagine that there is an external force pulling your back in front of your head.
④ Stretch and pull out the arm. The left leg spans half a step, both hands drive the body at the same time, and both sides do stretching pendulum. When you swing, imagine that there is an external force on it and gently pull your arm up. The lateral heel can be lifted freely.
⑤ Hold the object and start moving. Hold the object on the right hand side and swing back and forth near the inverted leg. When swinging, imagine your feet swinging and heavy legs hanging on them. Follow the wind. "Doing aerial exercises in form and sense is just like practicing Qigong. You should relax, move gently and slowly, and pay attention to the coordination of breathing and movement, that is, inhale when you want to pull up and exhale when your body sinks.
(10) Human growth. The medical team led by Ange Laszki, a plastic surgeon at Ohrid Hospital in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and China, treated 10 patients with growth therapy every year for10 years, and the height of patients increased to varying degrees. This method was put forward by Dr. Yili Saro of the former Soviet Union. He believes that it is the spine Z itself that promotes the growth of human bones, rather than the periosteum connected with bones as previously thought. This human growth method can make the patient grow 20 cm taller in 200 days.
Some medical units in China have carried out augmentation surgery to make the body taller, but some experts believe that from the medical principle, we should not advocate augmentation bone lengthening surgery for normal people.