Would you pay tens of thousands of pounds to become a few inches taller? Nina Nannar travelled to Los Angeles to meet a man who has done just that. After a complex operation Rich Rotella endured months of painful rehab and physiotherapy, and now he’s able to walk again – as a man of average height for the US. The extraordinary treatment has been around for many years, historically for patients whose limbs were of different lengths, but it’s growing in popularity now, as a cosmetic procedure.
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