Medical

These constant reminders that they are different and have a disability of being little, in many cases cause them to be insecure. Medical approaches to dwarfism have traditionally assumed that dwarfism was untreatable. However, advances in medical technology have made possible treatments to increase the height of little people ("Narrating intersections of gender and dwarfism in everyday spaces. "). For example, there are surgical procedures that can 'treat' the condition of 'dwarf' stature with the repeated breaking, extension and healing of leg bones. Though this may all sound interesting and appealing to those who have high hopes, according co-author Michael C. Ain, MD, associate professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland “Not only is limb lengthening a huge time commitment for the families involved, but children with achondroplasia are taken out of the environment where they play, interact and have fun to be placed in treatment for several years,” (“Dealing with Dwarfism”).