20 cm possible?

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Man, if you "don't care" about your height then why are you even on these forums?

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Man, if you "don't care" about your height then why are you even on these forums?

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Hey, if your not going to help why bother commenting mate? I realise this was an old thread but my god are people judgemental, the man asks for help and some of you just take the piss, 20 cm is clearly achieveable, is it gonna be difficult? Yes, even remotely close to impossible? No. Its going to take alot of effort and patients along with a good doctor and money but you will be able to, it might be too late but keep your head up high and just have hope man.

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It is achievable but you'll end up a cripple or someone with very limited functionality.
If someone does not want to walk again he could lengthen even 25 cm.

There is nothing to do with effort or good doctors and all these bs.
A good doctor won't let you lengthen even close to that amount (15 cm max and even that is much) and no matter what effort you put the harm in soft tissue and the destruction of biomechanics would be enough to never walk normally again or even not walk at all. I am not even saying about sports abilities which would be a joke.

So don't speak about things you don't know and have normal expectations or you'll end up a cripple.

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Quote from: giorgi98 on August 16, 2017, 12:14:33 AMHey, if your not going to help why bother commenting mate? I realise this was an old thread but my god are people judgemental, the man asks for help and some of you just take the piss, 20 cm is clearly achieveable, is it gonna be difficult? Yes, even remotely close to impossible? No. Its going to take alot of effort and patients along with a good doctor and money but you will be able to, it might be too late but keep your head up high and just have hope man.

Feasible yes, sensible no. The worst complications of LL has been seen after lengthening big amounts such as 20 cm. Think how many people you've heard of surviving well a 20 cm increment. Also, you will definitely mess up your proportions.

This is your health and mobility you are talking about, you have only seen the positive side in such a dangerous procedure. That might some day cost you all.

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Fair enough, but what about 15cm? Because my legs are short and my wingspan is 175cm even though im only 165cm

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You can lengthen 20 cm without crippling yourself, see Apo case. It's just that you have to go slow with the lengthening. In fact you can lengthen more like many dwarfs do, like 30+ cm over several surgeries (for example, lengthen femurs by 7.5 cm, then in a year lengthen tibias by 7.5, then again do femurs 7.5 and finally tibs 7.5). You obviously don't want to lengthen that much because of body proportions.

15 cm is max I'd recommend, but again proportions. Unless you have noticeably very short legs to torso, limit to 10-12 cm divided 4-6/5-7 tib-fem to be safe. Again, not everyone can take even 10 cm of lengthening as we all start out with different proportions (SH/H, ape index). Taller patients most definitely shouldn't go over 10 cm, as they statistically have lower Sitting Height/Height ratio (relatively longer legs to height/torso)*.

* http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/8/807

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Yep, I agree with Overdozer, though instead of doing 7.5 / 7.5, maybe it would be better to do 8 / 7 as femurs tolerate better the lengthening. However, 15 cm is on the border of safe limits + proportions limits. 12 cm - 13 cm, 7/6 would better for recovery. I don't see too much of a difference between being 177 and 180. However, the difference in recovery of every cm is very big.

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Well I have a 175 cm wingspan considering my height is 165cm but my legs look short so proportions dont scare me, in fact it will make me look better than I am now. Any idea how long recovery takes for 15cm - 18cm if I were to do both in the same year?

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Quote from: giorgi98 on August 16, 2017, 04:07:07 AMproportions dont scare me, in fact it will make me look better than I am now.

They might not scare you now and the second part could be wishful thinking and rationalization. You should listen to my advice.

Recovery is individual. And there's also difference between full consolidation and recovery. You may consolidate 15 cm in 1.5 years, 2 or 3 or potentially never (in case of nonunion). For recovery just multiply your consolidation time by 2 or 3.