I was wondering if there were issues is balancing when you have had the femur lengthened 2 to 3 inches. Like if you were doing squats with a barbell - would you fall backwards due to the increase in length? Or if you were just squatting down, does it feel natural?
Yes! That's the reason why I want to undergo 2 surgeries instead of just one!
I cannot imagine having a long af femur rest of my life. It's gonna cause a lot of problems, especially squatting kinda stuff. Running, even walking. That's why people cannot go back to their pre LL level what we call "%100 recovery".
Because if you lengthen your femurs, you gotta lengthen them tibs bro. (not necessarily, but would be better for bio-mechanics.)
I agree 5cm safest you go for that no prob! More you’ll have those issues. If you want to ribs year later 3/4cm
The balance issues shouldn’t be a problem loads of people have femur turn out v good.
So if you only lengthen up to 5cm you should be able to function great athletically? Can people who have only done up to 5cm on femurs confirm this?
Yeah well I’m sure! I read something you’ll come out as good coming in before op with 5cm
Yes, It might be controversial but 5cm is barely even something.
But after 5cm, even 1 more cm means a lot. You can see the difference by using a mesure, just bend your knee and stick the measure at the beginning of the knee, look at 5cms then look at 7. It makes a huge difference.
My goal is to get 7cm on the femurs. Max 7.5
Every cm counts I know haha. 6cm would be good. 5cm low risk. 5-7 medium. 8 high. You could do your tibias later to add the rest. I’m sure 6cm in femur would be worth it. You really got to think what’s more important height or function
Yeah, if I do this I definitely want to be just as functional as I was before. I'm 5'6'' (167.6cm) and if I could be 5'8''(172.7 cm) I would be satisfied and happy. 5'9'' would be a dream, but I wouldn't go that far to sacrifice athleticism, balance, etc. If you have had the surgery can you confirm how much it feels like when you were normal or is there a bit of difference to your movement?
Quote from: brondo on August 31, 2020, 12:58:03 PMI was wondering if there were issues is balancing when you have had the femur lengthened 2 to 3 inches. Like if you were doing squats with a barbell - would you fall backwards due to the increase in length? Or if you were just squatting down, does it feel natural?
I did 9cm on my left leg, 10cm on my right.
It is definitely harder to do Squats now but not impossible. It's not as easy to keep perfect form, but it's doable.
I don't have any other balance problems.
The main problem with a long limb that goes really outside of the normal distribution of femur/tibia ratio is that you can have some health issues down the road because of it. At least that's what some academic papers point put.
This is my main reason for considering a second LL - to get my femur/tibia ratio back to a more normal state (and also to fix a leg discrepancy that could not be totally fixed in the first LL).
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