Quote from: apoxyomenos on October 19, 2016, 10:31:02 PMHi Girlonline,
A possible way to determine how much you could lengthen your limbs is to know first your crural index (=tibia/femur) by getting X-rays. Once you have them, in order to measure the tibia and the femur just follow the indications that are in "Brachial and Crural index in the North American Population". You find this thesis in Google. In general the crural index varies from 78 (=mean-standard deviation) of the Lapps ethnic group to 89 (=mean + standard deviation) of the west africans/upper nubians/nilotic ethnicity, following the Allen's Rule. So if you have a low crural index, for example 80, the first surgery could be only external in order to reach 89 as new crural index. In this case with something like 4cm you should reach it, but of course, it depends on the exact measures of the x-rays. Then, if it's not enough, you can add the length in the femur in order to get back to your original crural index. But it's already said: 4/5=0,80. So 5cm more in the femurs. Reasonable amounts, besides the fact of being safer, are also within the range of the normal variation of crural index in humans, so no need to worry about proportions. But you should know your crural index first of all.
so true, thankssss a lot , helps a lot xx 