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The Role of Muscle in Physical Development
There is a variation in how long the whole growth spur takes. Can you look at muscular maturation as a measure of any kind? I think it would relate to your sexual maturity because the development of muscle would be regulated by the sexual hormones. There have been some developments in technology in terms of ultrasound. So yeah we've recently got a device from this made in Israel by a company called SonicPone that can measure your skeletal age by using ultrasound.
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