Hello doctor, My question is about height. I do not care about height, but it is just curiosity, my hobby, so I am not trying to cry somehow, I am just interested in this topic. If a person stops growing at the age for example 17 years and his or her height remains unchanged since then, is it possible that after few years, for example, seven years he or she will grow few millimeters like 4 to 5 mm? Is it possible that during these seven years without any growth there have remained little-growing spaces in the spine waiting and that lately, they made me grow these 4 mm? 4 mm is almost nothing, but still. Or is it that the cartilage able to grow just cannot remain to wait and not growing for few years? I have heard that testosterone makes growing spaces to ossify, so my logic tells me it is not possible for growing spaces to remain to wait in the vertebrae. So if yes, why? If not, why? Could you answer and explain with details? Yes, can be even very medical details, I will take such with happiness.
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