{"id":90172,"date":"2026-06-03T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90172"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:37:07","slug":"surgeons-warn-of-horror-complications-after-brits-get-leg-lengthening-surgery-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/surgeons-warn-of-horror-complications-after-brits-get-leg-lengthening-surgery-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons warn of horror complications after Brits get leg lengthening surgery abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24GlET.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Examples from a clinic's website promoting the procedure\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British surgeons are warning of potential horror complications if people travel abroad for controversial surgery to make them taller.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/surgeons-warn-of-horror-complications-after-brits-get-leg-lengthening-surgery-abroad\/ar-AA24GboN?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1fe0f2be1c4ceb9dee3257a31396ce&ei=28\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>British surgeons are warning of potential horror complications if people travel abroad for controversial surgery to make them taller.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/leg-lengthening.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90173,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90172\/revisions\/90173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}