Woman Sense Special Feature - Doctors Recommended by Master Doctors

"Height Increasing Surgery" Interview with Professor Song Hae-ryong of Korea University Guro Hospital

Starting the day early seems to be a routine, and the interview with Professor Song was also conducted at an early hour. With nearly 200 surgeries a year, as well as directly leading a research team developing artificial bone used for bone defect treatment, using time as efficiently as possible is already a natural habit for Professor Song.

“I work out at the fitness center for an hour, four days a week. I haven’t been able to go hiking for a while due to time constraints. It’s not easy to live a perfectly healthy life, but I try to stick to the rules I’ve set as much as possible.”

Good habits are a great asset to anyone's life. Most of the master doctors I've met in this column also achieved remarkable accomplishments in their fields by consistently and habitually focusing on one area rather than rushing towards a grand goal. Professor Song's numerous research and clinical experiences in rare and intractable musculoskeletal diseases such as dwarfism and limb deformities are possible because he has consistently focused on one goal for a long time.

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Short stature has so many different causes and is sometimes discovered late depending on the course of the disease, so early diagnosis through consultation with a specialist is important.

Once a person's height stops growing, it no longer grows, so patients with short stature naturally have no choice but to place hope in 'height-increasing surgery.' Professor Song is considered the leading authority in Korea when it comes to 'Ilizarov surgery,' which is known as 'height-increasing surgery.' Ilizarov surgery is a procedure that increases height by artificially creating new tissues such as bone, skin, nerves, and muscles by fixing an Ilizarov device to the leg. A thin pin is inserted into the bone and connected to a ring. The rings are connected by a metal rod, and there is a nut in the middle of the metal rod that adjusts the length. By adjusting this nut and increasing the distance between the rings by 1 mm per day, cells fill the loosened tissue, creating new bone, skin, nerves, and muscles, ultimately increasing height.

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[Woman Sense] Special Feature - Doctors Recommended by Master Doctors, Interview and Article on "Height Increasing Surgery". 2014.01.02