Why do people advise not doing over 5cm?

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Why not go Parihar or Birkholtz? I guess you don't want to go to those countries.

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Oh, it was just like you said, bitching on the forum mostly.

I'm probably going with Mitkovic. He seems the best of the cheap ones. Not that it's a good idea to go with the cheap ones if you have the choice! If I had that money I'd probably go with Parihar, he seems to get good results while not being prohibitively expensive. But again, I don't really know enough to comment.

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Quote from: Jack1066 on February 04, 2017, 06:52:55 PMOh, it was just like you said, bitching on the forum mostly.

I'm probably going with Mitkovic. He seems the best of the cheap ones. Not that it's a good idea to go with the cheap ones if you have the choice! If I had that money I'd probably go with Parihar, he seems to get good results while not being prohibitively expensive. But again, I don't really know enough to comment.

Yeah personally I dont want to touch anything else other than femurs. I feel that with femurs, just by lengthening 5.5 cm, I would be able to go back to close to 100 percent athletic ability.

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I think the femur is best as well.

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I think being honest it's impossible to go back to 100% even if you do a smaller amount like 4 cm. 5 cm (maybe more on femurs but it all depends on the person) is usually considered the "safe" limit of a small amount. There are just more trade offs the more you do.

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Quote from: Jack1066 on February 05, 2017, 02:56:54 PMI think being honest it's impossible to go back to 100% even if you do a smaller amount like 4 cm. 5 cm (maybe more on femurs but it all depends on the person) is usually considered the "safe" limit of a small amount. There are just more trade offs the more you do.

Damn really? Yeah I guess what you say makes sense

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But we have to take in cosideration that the amount lengthened is not the same as the amount gained, if you say 4 is safe, you are really saying that 5 is safe.

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Quote from: onemorefoot on February 05, 2017, 11:14:49 PMBut we have to take in cosideration that the amount lengthened is not the same as the amount gained, if you say 4 is safe, you are really saying that 5 is safe.

What do you mean by that? If I want to gain 2 inches are you saying that I have to technically gain 3?

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Yes, that confused me a bit too. I thought that in some cases some length was lost but normally it's ok..

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If you turn the Ilizarov 6.4cm, in reality it might only have extended 6cm. That's what we are talking about, not that the bones magically get shorter. So if someone says 5cm is the safe limit he is saying that lengthening 5cm is the safe limit. Not that he lengthened 6 then lost 1.