There was a post in absoluteunits of a giant basketball player (Hamad Fathy) who is 7’5” and alot of people were commenting about the likely sad state of his knees and back.
My question is if he is fully proportional and athletic with no extra weight damaging his joints, are the forces of gravity enough to do more damage to him just because of his exceptional size?
What else could slowly wear away at someone that large’s body?
In: Biology
Because he is not fully propotional. I don’t know the guy, but the mechanics of how your body moves change when you diverge from “normal” height and weight.In the case where you’re taller but not heavier your’re still putting more stress on your joints because the forces involved are still bigger.
If you walk out onto a plank suspended over nothing, the further you get away from the ground its attached to the more likely the plank is to break. Despite your weight not having changed. The stress on the joint is propotional to the distance to the force.
That is to say that if your limbs and frame are longer, your center of mass will also be further away from the joints that move that weight. Therefore increasing the stress they take. That kinda thing can build up over time for very tall people.
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