I have always wondered this. Most doctors say not to do over 5cm in femur lengthening. But what if someone did 5.5 or 6cm.
Would that extra cm actually be that bad and make the surgery that much more riskier?
the risk of complication are higher after five cause you stretch too much your soft tissus and of course it's bad . The more you lengthening the higher risk you take . I don't think that it will kill you but after five you may develope nerve pain or some sh*t like that . 5 is for me the limit if you want to be almost back to who you were 4 is way better and etc ...
Quote from: yyes on February 04, 2017, 08:45:27 AMI have always wondered this. Most doctors say not to do over 5cm in femur lengthening. But what if someone did 5.5 or 6cm.
Would that extra cm actually be that bad and make the surgery that much more riskier?
I think you meant tibiae lengthening. Femurs 6-7 cm do-able safety wise as they are naturally longer.
Interesting.
What do you guys think of Dr Monegal. I'm thinking about doing 5.5 cms with him.
Also do you think this is a surgery that you can hide from most of your friends or do you think they would know that you did the surgery?
Quote from: yyes on February 04, 2017, 02:30:17 PMInteresting.
What do you guys think of Dr Monegal. I'm thinking about doing 5.5 cms with him.
Also do you think this is a surgery that you can hide from most of your friends or do you think they would know that you did the surgery?
Difficult to hide I think. How do you explain disappearing for at least some weeks and being disabled for a few months?
Wrong. Countless people have had problems at 6-7. Virtually no one seems to complain at 4-5cm
You could probably say you were going on holiday or something, then that you'd gotten in an accident and broken your legs? lol
I think it depends on whether you do femurs or tibias. Individual doctors say different things about safe limits. I think as a rule it's about 7 cm for femurs and 5 cm for tibias.
That would be the only way lol. I'm going with Dr Monegal. I know a lot of people were bashing on him lately but I don't really understand why and if they are valid comments about him
I don't know enough to comment. From what I've read he's quite expensive and has questionable results though. How much are you spending for the surgery with him?
40-50 k is what I am budgeting for.
Questionable results? That sounds concerning. But yeah some people seem to complain about him. I wish there was more info on him in the web.
And something that threw me off was him defending himself in this forum. I dont know, it was kind of odd. I feel like other docs such as Paley or Guichet or Rozbruch would give less of a fu$k if they were being questioned here. Just my intuition though. I might be 100 percent wrong on him.
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