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The growing plates at the long bones have an average time when they stop growing. If your femur and tibia plates are still open then yes you can still grow taller.
Stretching cant actually make you taller however you will be your tallest right when you wake up in the morning.
How to tell if my growth plates are closed. Edit to answer the revised question. The only way to know if your growth plate is closed his to get an x-ray of the bone in question. You can pretty much assume that all of your growth plates are closed about a year or two after you have finished puberty.
Also to know is how can you tell if your growth plates have closed. On an x-ray growth plates look like dark lines at the ends of the bones. At the end of growth when the cartilage completely hardens into bone the dark line will no longer be visible on an x-ray.
At that point growth plates are considered closed. Beside above at what age growth plates close. Originally Posted by b0stonfan123.
The only way to tell is to get an x ray done and look at your epiphyseal plates. Your not gonna grow another 2 inches sorry. Stretching cant actually make you taller however you will be your tallest right when you wake up in the morning.
This is during this phase when the growth plates are closed and are replaced by solid bone. However it is difficult to say exactly when each growth plates close because different bones stop growing at different times. The growing plates at the long bones have an average time when they stop growing.
Their epiphyseal growth plates have closed. This means that the growth plate cartilage in their bones have disappeared from ossification. Most doctors like endocrinologists would say that one can no longer grow taller after the plates close.
So how will you increase your height if your growth plates are closed. My dad is 5 6 12 16891 cm so Im 3 12 inches taller then my dad and he told me he was full grown at age 17 as his growth plates were closed. I have 1 older brother hes 187 years old and 5 8 14 17335 cm so Im 1 34 taller then him.
When your growth plates are fused closed means you are full grown forever. Cartilages Growth Al though most of your bones cant grow any longer after puberty the articular cartilages that connect many bones can still grow thicker. Besides the distal potion on each vertebrae the distal end of Femur and the proximal end of Tibia each can grow up to an inch which gives another 2 inches extra height.
Height will be determined primarily by the growth in the bones of the legs and the spine at this time. It is quite possible that the small bones in the wrist have closed while the growth plates in the legs are still open and that would allow for continued increases in height. You wouldnt know for sure unless you looked at an x-ray of the legs.
How do I know if my growth plates are closed. The only way to know if your growth plates are still open is to have an x-ray. You can scan every part of the body that has growth plate but the easiest and most common one is wrist.
So go have an x-ray and find out if your growth plates are closed or not. Any way to know for sure if your growth plates are closed. Your plates are guarnteed close till 24-25 most peopl are done 20-21 aas should not be used till least 22 IMHO 02-Oct-2006 0215 AM 9.
The straightforward answer is no. Once the growth plates close they can never reopen. The process is irreversible.
Growth plates consist of cartilage cells which eventually mature and turn to bones. The growth plates are closed when these cells. You can estimate remaining growth based on these charts.
Orthopaedic surgeons also use different X-ray markers from the hand or pelvis to better estimate the amount of growth a child has remaining explains Dr. A good rule of thumb is that once a child has reached the end stages of puberty the growth plates are essentially closed. I am pre med and not all that familiar with this but have discussed it a little in schoolim basing my judgement that your growth plates physis are closed due to the radius and ulna.
As you can see in the x-rays the ends of the radius and ulna are ossified which is why they show up on the x-ray. Hello everyone im going to go get my checkup on friday but im really anxious on if my growth plates have closed or not. Anyone can tell.
Posted by 6 minutes ago. Hello everyone im going to go get my checkup on friday but im really anxious on if my growth plates have closed or not. Anyone can tell.
If your femur and tibia plates are still open then yes you can still grow taller. On the average those plates will close up by the time youre 19. It isnt uncommon for hands and feet to finish their growth first and that can happen to your arms earlier than your legs.
Look at yourself in the mirror and check out your proportions. How Can I Grow Taller If My Growth Plates are Closed. When bones finish growing the growth plates close.
Girls generally stop growing and reach their maximum height between ages 14 and 16 and boys finish their growth between 16 and 18 years of age. Hormonal changes trigger growth and growth spurts and since hormones work differently in boys and girls they mature at different times. At that point the plates close because theyve contributed all they can to the growth of the bones.
The growth plate becomes a stable inactive part of the bone but before then the plates are soft and vulnerable to injury. An injury to the growth plate might not heal properly nor heal in time for a puppy to grow up straight and strong.