Can stretching help you grow taller?

In order to make themselves taller, people now look for various methods, such as using height-increasing essential oils, or taking some height-increasing drugs. In particular, various height-increasing health products have appeared on the market. Here we need to remind everyone that a person's height is affected by many factors, so not every method of increasing height is effective. So, is stretching helpful for growing taller?

Can stretching help you grow taller?

It can increase height, but it has many side effects. This practice is actually the same as "forcing growth by pulling up the seedlings". Stretching the original body will disperse the nutrients for its growth, which may eventually lead to osteoporosis, deformity, paralysis, and bone inflammation. Of course, it is also possible that nothing happens for the time being. This is actually a gambling-like method of measuring one's height.

In medieval Europe, there was a form of torture called tendon pulling. So it is best not to try mechanical pulling. It is still very beneficial to do more jumping.

Stretching mainly aims to lengthen and loosen the tendons outside the joints to expand the range of joint motion, rather than to open the joint spaces up and down. Therefore, general stretching does not help to increase height. Some people even force themselves to press the muscles to accelerate stretching, which indirectly puts pressure on the cartilage and even growth plates, which may hinder height growth. However, stretching exercises specifically designed for increasing height, that is, stretching exercises that can open the spaces between the spine and leg joints up and down (usually called stretching exercises), can help increase height.

Exercises that help you grow taller: swimming, skipping rope, basketball, tennis, trampoline, jumping ball, dancing, calisthenics and stretching exercises, etc. Doing them several times a day is better than doing them all at once for a long time. The more jumping elements there are, or the more stretching activities that stretch the spine and leg joints upward and downward at the same time, the more it will help people grow taller without developing sideways.

Touch your toes

After getting up every morning, you can stretch your back and muscles by touching your toes. Relax yourself by touching your toes first thing in the morning. This will warm up your back muscles. This move can also improve your back posture, allowing you to stand straighter. Raise your arms overhead before bending over to touch your toes. The legs cannot be bent, but the knees can be slightly bent. To finish, raise your hands above your head and tense your spine.

Bridge stretch

This exercise can improve the flexibility of the back

Bridge stretch is harder than touching your toes

Lie flat on your back and grab your ankle from below.

Lift your hips and pull your torso along to stretch your back

Cobra Back Pull

This exercise helps improve back flexibility

Relieve back pressure

This exercise can help relax your back after sitting for a long time.

Lie flat on the bed with your hands at your sides

Slowly support your torso with both hands.

Tilt your head back slightly