Short legs
Short legs is a trait in which a person has shorter legs than normal, compared to the average person from the same ethnic/racial group. Short legs can be due to a hereditary/genetic problem such as dwarfism.
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A 36-year old asked:
Can someone with short legs still be tall?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Short legs?
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A 40-year old asked:
Is there a disease that causes someone to have short legs?
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A 43-year old male asked:
What is the recommended heel lift for one short leg. ?
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A 41-year old asked:
Do women have shorter legs relative to height than men do?
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A 51-year old asked:
Short leg syndrome | short leg proportional to other. Is it genetics?
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A 53-year old female asked:
Do i see a podiayrist about my short leg?
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A 30-year old asked:
Is a heel lift orthotic effective for short leg syndrome?
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A 37-year old asked:
I have short legs. What sport should I do so that my legs can get longer?
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A 34-year old asked:
At age 22, can surgery be done to correct bow leg along with lengthening of short legs?
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A 39-year old asked:
Is it possible to have torso shortening surgery for girls with longer torso and shorter legs?
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A 38-year old asked:
I have short legs, so it makes my thighs look thick. What can make me look slimmer and taller?
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A 19-year old female asked:
How does one get short legs? Is it only genetic or outside factors or both? Please be specific.
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A 49-year old asked:
I have unnaturally short legs for my torso. Any surgeries to shorten your torso and thus reducing your height?
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A 37-year old asked:
What are good things to do to get rid of flabby inner thighs if I have short legs?
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A 37-year old asked:
I had my short leg cast removed about a week ago. Is it normal to have pain in my ankle?
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A 18-year old male asked:
I got a short leg cast today and my knee is very stiff what are ways for the stiffness to go away?
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A female asked:
I have short legs and long torso. Is there any excercises I can do or natural remedies to make my legs longer?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Will having sex slow down my recovery for a broken tibia and in a short leg cast ?
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A 39-year old asked:
What type of doctor can I talk to about short legs?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Hi dear doctors, 2 weeks ago i had malleolus medialis, no short-leg cast is put on my ankle, but i cannot bend it upwards (dorsiflexion) is it ok?
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A 43-year old asked:
Why would the doctor recommend a short-leg cast prior to ankle reconstruction surgery?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Short leg cause scoliosis, sciatica, stenosis, disc bulge. Lift on now, still hurts. Surgeon says too young for fusion surgery that chiro wants?Im 32.
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A member asked:
Orthopedic is there a way to corrrect a shorter leg and leg is turned outside from a knee dislocation at a very young age for this 22 y/o male...Any doctors that does this type of surgery just like a vet who turned the kitty legs because it was backwards?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Always had one leg longer than the other, past year ball of my foot on shorter leg increasingly more pain now arch pain and big toe numb. No injury?
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A 43-year old female asked:
I have a lateral maellous fracture that is closed with medial stress fracture I am in a short leg non walking cast still a lot of bruising swelling?
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A 37-year old female asked:
How is cast anxiety best dealt with? I have a displaced navicular fracture and am currently in a posterior short leg splint. I have no history of anxiety, but am having panic attacks because of the splint. I feel like I need to rip it off?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Hello doctor i am from kurdistan and i know some speak english i have a girl freind he short one leg we can help her?
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A member asked about a 49-year old male:
For several weeks pain in stomach(six pack area) travels to groin down leg,leg goes numb. walking short distance leg goes numb catscan found nothing
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A 35-year old female asked:
I have one leg shorter than the other i'm in constant pain in my back and recently the pain has started in my legs as well .What can I do for the pain?
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