did anyone lengthened arms?

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if you have not done tibia and femur operation, then stop talking and dreaming about humerus, because if your the dreamer type you probably wont ever get it done anyway...


the number of people over the years who get no surgeries ever but always go gungho saying I WILL GET THIS, I WILL GET THAT sadly is nothing more than delusion. everyone always starts off here saying, IM GOING TO DO TIBIA, IM GOING TO DO FEMUR, IM GOING TO DO HUMERUS.

well good luck but I seriously doubt anyone who has not done femur and tibia already.

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The idea is horrifying.

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but on doctor in my country latvia said humerus is more difficult to lengthen due to smaller muscle and nerves.

I didn't do any surgery yet. I ask for some necessary information because I don't want to regret by the possible complications

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Quote from: DreamKamchatka on July 30, 2015, 11:26:11 PMbut on doctor in my country latvia said humerus is more difficult to lengthen due to smaller muscle and nerves.

I didn't do any surgery yet. I ask for some necessary information because I don't want to regret by the possible complications

There seem to be mixed opinions on this. Dr Guichet is another CLL surgeon who said humerus lengthening is too dangerous. On the other hand, Dr Paley says it's the easiest segment to lengthen and my own surgeon will do it as well. I think there was a study out there that said humerus is the easiest, too.

If your surgeon is not confident about it though, then don't do it with him.

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i can imagine the physio being very easy, and arguably the complication rate being low due to the lengthening amount people would do would be around 3cm giving a wingspan of 6cm.

i would say it would be useful for people very short looking to become aveage, example 5 4 to 5 9, but there winspan is 5 4.

but for people with better starting heights they are just best accepting the most their wingspan allows then to go in height, simply because the hardship of 3x surgeries may become too much to be worth it.

my wingspan is 167, if i did a 2nd LL id do 4.5cm to 173cm nd just acept having short arms.