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[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

I discovered that measuring height is kinda technical especially we are living in an era where stloads of ppl are inflating their heights and rare ones care about how to exactly measure heights.

Rn I think seca213 or reach your top of skull with heavy objects facing towards a straight wall are 2 most reliable ways to exactly measure your heights but seca213 is a very expensive anthropometer so the latter is a more realistic option.

I measured my height in the latter way and the lowest height is 161.6cm barefoot at night but for multiple times I cannot reach that low height at night no matter how many times I measured my height so I think 161.6cm is caused by more stresses on my spine.

I think some of ppl are not really inflating their heights instead they are just really unknown about how to measure heights, like clamping a tape with feet to measure heights and other absurd ways of measuring.

[ilovescience]

Some people prefer measuring their heights when lying down on the floor, because that way your spinal cord was not compressed, and you will have additional an inch taller due to elongated backbone.

[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

Some people prefer measuring their heights when lying down on the floor, because that way your spinal cord was not compressed, and you will have additional an inch taller due to elongated backbone.

You are referring to Xiaoming Huang LOL? I never measured my height that way

[ilovescience]

You are referring to Xiaoming Huang LOL? I never measured my height that way

No. Here has a short explanation
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/1993023333357068747.html
 

[thaw1010]

I only go by my night height (I'm 168cm with a goal of 183 at night for reference). I use a flat object, most often a tissue box, make a small mark on the wall, and use a tape measure. Obv the next time I'm in a clinic or hospital I'll ask to use their height-measuring-thingy.

[ilovescience]

I only go by my night height (I'm 168cm with a goal of 183 at night for reference). I use a flat object, most often a tissue box, make a small mark on the wall, and use a tape measure. Obv the next time I'm in a clinic or hospital I'll ask to use their height-measuring-thingy.

If you tried to measure your height when lying down on the bed, your height would be 2 cm taller.

[thaw1010]

If you tried to measure your height when lying down on the bed, your height would be 2 cm taller.

So what? Your height really only matters relative to others', and you don't see people just laying around day to day lol. It also means that 6' people would also be that much taller, so it all cancels out anyway

[ilovescience]

So what? Your height really only matters relative to others', and you don't see people just laying around day to day lol. It also means that 6' people would also be that much taller, so it all cancels out anyway

Understood. However I have found a video that tells how to make your spinal cord as straight as possible. Doing it for weeks helps restore your spinal cord length if I'm not mistaken. It adds an inch to your standing height.

[Achieverr]

Interesting topic though I think we would get stuck in numbers and be anxious about it
I myself for example been measured back in high school at the sports hall at 169/170 cm
However , nowadays no matter what I try I won't exceed 166/167 cm mark (even morning height) so I really confused what measurement is wrong.
I look at height as appearance rather than a number
for example many slim 5'8 guys do look taller than bulky 5'9-5'10 ,
again as CLL you will have longer legs so this would give the illusion of being more than you nominal height number I guess.

[ilovescience]

Interesting topic though I think we would get stuck in numbers and be anxious about it
I myself for example been measured back in high school at the sports hall at 169/170 cm
However , nowadays no matter what I try I won't exceed 166/167 cm mark (even morning height) so I really confused what measurement is wrong.
I look at height as appearance rather than a number
for example many slim 5'8 guys do look taller than bulky 5'9-5'10 ,
again as CLL you will have longer legs so this would give the illusion of being more than you nominal height number I guess.

How old are you may I ask? Our heights shrink because of the loss of vertebrae discs due to long hours activities or aging. So some people lose their heights by an inch compared to their youth.

[Achieverr]

How old are you may I ask? Our heights shrink because of the loss of vertebrae discs due to long hours activities or aging. So some people lose their heights by an inch compared to their youth.

170 cm was measured when I was around 15 yrs old.
I guess my growth stopped at 13/14 years old mark.
Now I am 29 yrs, so not sure if my measurement was exaggerated back then

[ReadRothbard]

It's very hard to do without a stadiometer, but I just mark the wall, stand straight as an arrow, put my head in the frankfurt plane, and put a straight, flat object on my head to press down my hair. Then, I look to see which measurement the top of my head lines up to. It should be pretty accurate within a millimeter or so.

[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

It's very hard to do without a stadiometer, but I just mark the wall, stand straight as an arrow, put my head in the frankfurt plane, and put a straight, flat object on my head to press down my hair. Then, I look to see which measurement the top of my head lines up to. It should be pretty accurate within a millimeter or so.

Three days ago after I took a bath I just measured my height and I found out my top of skull cannot feel the touch of objects that I used to mark my skull top onto the wall which knocked my socks off and my height 'shrank' by 0.3cm bc of it!
That was a thrilling moment and my height reached a new lowest point! But I know that was bc my shampoo softened my hair and my skull's sense of touch was blunted so that I couldn't feel my skull as touched as before by the objects. But my height recovered to nearly 162cm at night barefoot at the next night.

[Sambollio]

I use the stadiometer at my gym, once in the morning right after waking up and once at night. I take the median and that’s my height. No reason to lie to myself with tricks and timing to get a “maximum height”.

[zaozari]

Look, just have a full legs Rx, it costs in my country 40 euros even without any health insurance of National Health Service.
 
If you need a prescription for Rx, just have a consultation with an ortophaedic doctor and tell or explain you want to know or that's for CLL and take the time to ask his opinion.
The consultation may cost from 35 to 80 euros or be free (but dificult to be free with NHS as its purpose is not to treat any disease).

You will have results by the milimeter for each leg (they are allmost never the same height) and you can even chose a place where you have it done at the hour of the day you prefer.
Any other method only very luckily will not induce you in (possibly big) measurements error.

[bn44222]

do you think that work ?

[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

Look, just have a full legs Rx, it costs in my country 40 euros even without any health insurance of National Health Service.
 
If you need a prescription for Rx, just have a consultation with an ortophaedic doctor and tell or explain you want to know or that's for CLL and take the time to ask his opinion.
The consultation may cost from 35 to 80 euros or be free (but dificult to be free with NHS as its purpose is not to treat any disease).

You will have results by the milimeter for each leg (they are allmost never the same height) and you can even chose a place where you have it done at the hour of the day you prefer.
Any other method only very luckily will not induce you in (possibly big) measurements error.

Thx for you suggestions but I don't find any Rx in China's hospitals.

[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

do you think that work ?

Do I think what works? You mean my measurements? I think my measurement is the most accurate way to measure my height on par with measuring height with a stadiometer(but the prerequisite is that this stadiometer itself has no problems with accuracy.

[zaozari]

Thx for you suggestions but I don't find any Rx in China's hospitals.

China has no Rx in hospitals? What do you mean? How do they see bones and do other Rx diagnosis?

[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

China has no Rx in hospitals? What do you mean? How do they see bones and do other Rx diagnosis?

Do you mean Radiometer by Rx? If yes then I never heard of using Radiometers to measure heights or count out heights through other values.
Mind elaborating it any further?

[zaozari]

I don’t know anythink else technically. The orthopaedic doctor prescribed (asked) the Rx services only a full ,view ("two" or "3 views", or "panoramic" I don’t remember) of legs and at the end I could see the measures in millimeters both marked by horizontal lines in the Rx itself and in that very brief report about it (which included a table left/right leg for lower and upper segments separately). It was a relatively cheap exam. I didn't use  neither insurance nor NHS.
I don’t know the medical criteria to mark the lines that define the measurements made. I only remember I had to be both in ventral and dorsal positions.