But rather than accept defeat, Transer, now 30 years old, did some research and eventually discovered the Ilizarov apparatus: a surgically attached device that would lengthen her legs.

An Ilizarov Apparatus can also be used to stabilize bones during healing after surgery on complex fractures. Image credit: Pagemaker787. It was also much more invasive.

People have broken leg bones for millennia. In Classical Greece, the famous physician Hippocrates described an external fixation apparatus composed of leather rings connected with four wooden rods ...

The method involves an operation to apply the Ilizarov apparatus, a contraption that reminds one of Pinhead, the acupunctured villain in the Hellraiser movies.

Ilizarov took his groundbreaking discovery one step further and developed an apparatus, based on the mechanics of a bicycle, to set severed bones in place and, at the same time, continuously ...

After doing a little research, Transer reportedly discovered the Ilizarov apparatus. According to a student report published by the Oxford University Hospitals, ...