"So, “everyone” gets shorter with age and this phenomenon is usually
chalked up to compression over time. It is said that your height
decreases because either the discs between your vertebrae have flattened
out or, your bone density decreases with age, creating weak bones that
can no longer stay upright so they curl forward. This seems to be the
general understanding of why we get shorter as we get older. However,
things are not always as they appear.
What I’m about to explain here is how someone can measure as shorter
without any change in their mass — only in how their mass is oriented.
I’ve failed, many times, to get this point across to large crowds of
clinicians and they always end up looking at me like I’m insane. How can
someone possibly be shorter if some body part hasn’t changed in length?
Let me show you...."
Katy Bowman making sense of shrinking. Head over to
her blog to read the rest.
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