Why China banned leg extensions (5 photos)

No, not filters in TikTok, all Chinese social networks are based on this! But do you know the Ilizarov apparatus (a metal frame with screws), which our desperate beauties sometimes use?





Oh, these terrible Chinese filters that know no measure

As you can guess, the danger of such operations, for which the apparatus is needed, did not stop the Chinese from going under the knife.

Long legs are one of the signs of beauty, and for the sake of beauty they are ready to do a lot. The population did not know the limits and boundaries of reason, so breaking your legs for the sake of an extra couple of centimeters was officially prohibited by law. Only for medical reasons.

But this is a rather "floating understanding", the need for medical reasons can always be "drawn" by the right doctor.



Photo from one Chinese clinic, brrr, horror

Deplorable consequences are not uncommon

The higher the frequency of such operations - the more often there are unsuccessful outcomes. That's why this limb-lengthening surgery was banned back in 2006, but that hasn't stopped underground clinics or medical tours to other countries for the rich.



Here's what this machine is REALLY for

This month, a woman from the eastern province of Jiangsu spent 600,000 yuan on this surgery to become 13 centimeters taller, as she was promised. But she ended up with a bone infection, so now she can't even run, let alone walk fast, and has difficulty breathing.

- My life is completely ruined. If there was an operation that could reverse this, I would do it immediately,” admitted only one of the hundreds of “victims of beauty.”

And again in August, a 29-year-old man from Henan Province underwent such an operation in a public hospital. He was able to convince doctors that he needed this operation, because he is only 164 centimeters tall, so he lives with a feeling of inferiority. Therefore, the operation cost him less than 100,000 yuan. And in the end, he was released ... with legs of different lengths. Which effectively made him disabled.



A news frame about a guy whose legs are now different lengths

So an operation in a public clinic is not a guarantee at all.

The procedure itself is pretty creepy if you've never seen it. The patient's leg bones are BROKE, then they are fused back together in a metal device frame so that when new tissue is built up, they stretch and the legs become longer.



Everyone forgets that arms can be treated too, everyone looks at the legs

And anyway, 13 centimeters is some kind of myth, usually such a device can give six centimeters. Shadow surgery lures its clients with unrealistic numbers.