Dear Dr JoshuaI am a 33 year old male and is suffering from the disorder of ‘height growth’ from my childhood. As a result, I’m skinny and having
extremely long limbs. The latter is the main cause of my health problem and extreme discomfort. As a result, I’m suffering from both
physically and psychologically since youth. The long length of my limbs is absolutely not proportional to the length of my body. I have
long fingers. My arm span exceeded my height. My index finger and thumb touch and exceeded when wrapped around my wrist. For example,
my middle finger is close to 9cm, but my palm is only 10.5cm long vertically.

Dr Joshua’s answer

Thank you for your question. Bone shortening treatment does exist, it’s surgical, but the procedure is not suitable for fingers– it exists mainly for shortening the lower extremity when there’s lower extremity length discrepancy. It’s not suitable for fingers as they are delicate functional units and vitally important to our daily living. Any shortening procedure I imagine would result in deteriorated motor coordination. From your question it is not clear to me whether you have been diagnosed with a certain specific disorder or syndrome. Could be you are just tall, and have long limbs and fingers as a normal variant.

You do not elaborate on your physical and psychological suffering. What is the problem exactly? How are your long limbs causing physical and psychological suffering and extreme discomfort as you put it? It would be helpful to know more. How tall are you by the way, and what exactly is your arm span?

Cheers,
Dr. Joshua