Considerations about Tibia x Femur Lengthening

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Hello, Everyone,

I'm not sure if I made myself clear with the topic title.

I had a 5 cm femur lengthening 2 years ago and I would like to do another 3~4cm in my tibias. It was with LON.
It took around 5 months, from lengthening to consolidation to end (very fast imo).

I will talk with the doctor next week about the surgery, what he recommends etc. But I would like to hear from people who had Femur and Tibia in different moments what they think about it.

I mean, for me the most difficult part of lengthening the femur was not being able to bend my knees. This caused me a lot of other troubles. If I could bend my knees I would be much more self-sufficient.

Is there any link in the forum regarding this? Any opinions and experiences to share?

Thank you all

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Where did you do your femur lengthening? Where you will do tibia and which method?

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in my hometown, brazil
it costed around in 2017, 20k dolars or even less (only surgeries and equipments, no accommodation because I Live in the city) with one of the best doctors (its a team but im assisted by one of the doctors) of the country. Rio de Janeiro.
it was LON.

I hope LON again with the same doctor and around same price.

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Can you post the name of your doctor?

Did you use LON with monorails on femur and now will use ilizarov on tibia?


http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=9956.31
There is this guy who is doing tibia 1 year after doing femur. You can contact him.