I wrote the last post a little too fast and never finished the full video on the 60 Minutes website entitled “Walking Tall” about Igor Vovkovinskiy. In the previous post, I had claimed that Igors own doctor is mistaken and wrong about stating that Igor can still grow. We as the height increase researchers and the licensed physician allowed to treat a pituitary giant is wrong in the science.

Now I am even more sure that the doctor was wrong about Igor. Igor can’t grow any taller. HIs height has stooped increasing. HIs tumor might make him wider, and given him a wider face, or hips, or thicker bones, but he should not be getting any taller.

The thing I was wondering about the previous post was whether the doctors had ever taken an X-ray of Igor’s body. Well I at the time did not watch the 2nd half of the 60 minutes video. It seems that they have. around the 9 minute mark the 60 minutes reporter meets Igor’s doctor to look at his leg bones.

You can clearly see that Igor’s lower limbs and the top of his feet has been X-rayed. I spent quite a few minutes to really check the X-ray.

Around 9:07 time, you can get a very clear view of Igor’s left leg. There is no cartilage or growth plates left. There is also no epiphyseal line either. Since the human body is more or less symmetrical, I would say it is reasonable to assume that if we saw the X-ray of his right leg and right feet, we would also find the same thing, no growth plates or epiphyseal lines.

So does this mean that Igor has no growth plates anymore? Not exactly, since in the human body, different areas and specific growth plates ossify at different times in development. I had written before in the past that even though the growth plates in the limbs may be gone, there might still be some cartilage left in the torso, in the vertebrate irregular bones.

If we look at one website MedHelp.com, a medical questions and answers site, we see that we do get sort of answer to our last question. A Dr. Vinod answers someone who calls themselves “shorty”.