Height has become a big concern for short size parents, wonder if a kid may not reach a standard height compared to other children. However, genetic is just a factor but not the last result to fit your child height anymore. However, all solutions are as follows.
Height growth stimulation
Exercise: Not just to build up strength, but it also stimulates the Growth Hormone. The best exercise is either jumping on a rope or trampoline by 20 minutes a day. Anterior leg bone will be stronger and a height can increase up to at least 2.5 centimeters.
Enough sleeping: Around 10 pm to 2 am, the body releases hormone called melatonin helps stimulate the pituitary gland and produces growth hormone, which usually the body releases after 90 minutes sleeping, so it is not strange if children who like to sleep after midnight will be shorter than others.
Good Nutrition: Food is important for people in all ages especially in growth stage. Food intake needs to consist of 5 categories in each meal and do not forget to avoid food with sweet, starches, fats and sugars.
Provide a medical help
The three methods above are natural stimulation. But if the parents are still afraid that their own children are not tall enough. Then there is supplement by medical techniques such as, the use of electric stimulation, acupuncture, or back and neck pulling to extend the disc bone which is similar to a bar exercising or parents may contact a pediatric and endocrinologist directly.
New technique for height increasing
According to an osteopathic physician from Japan has suggested on how to increase a child ’s stature by kneeling and bending the body backward until reaching a floor as a laying position and both arms stretch up keep holding for about 1 minute. This is a technique to stretch the crooked bones back to straight. And the child can get the height with standard proportion.
