Many people believe that some stretching sports with vertical jump such as basketball and volleyball can increase the body height. On the other hand, others do not agree with this argument.
The problem is that there are many scientific websites that have explained and discussed this issue but as I see, both of them don't refer to any scientific article with specific statistical experiments.
I just found this article that has not a regular scientific content.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-of-human-height/
I am pleased to answer this question with a scientific article.
This is a prime example of misinterpretation of correlation. Yes, taller athletes are found in these sports, but there is no evidence that participation in these sports causes growth. Remember, correlation does not prove causation. It is more reasonable to assume that taller athletes naturally gravitate towards these sports due to the physical requirements and advantages of being taller. The reason you won't find any literature showing that basketball/volleyball increases human height is because they don't!
La croissance des os longs aune programmation génétique. Si vos grands parents sont grands vous serez grand
Le sport solidifie le squelette mais en aucun cas il l'allonge
Paul Hafen and Luma Akram Jallu There are numerous researches on everything's effect on height such as diet, hormones, etc. but there is no publication about stretching and jumping effects on body height.
Despite this issue is almost obvious that basketball doesn't increase height, scientifically we are not allowed to claim it without any experiment.
On the other hand, this kind of research is so easy and we just need to compare some documentary about the history of the height records.
Seyed Morteza Razavi are there any other sports that involve tremendous amounts of stretching and jumping but might do not normally have taller athletes? What about gymnastics? I would argue that those athletes (at the elite level) are far more flexible and explosive than basketball or volleyball players, yet they are far shorter. It should be easy to find literature comparing anthropometric data across athletic specialties... if stretching and jumping made athletes taller, wouldn't you expect gymnasts to all be taller than average too?
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