Wat were the advantages you think you got with an additional surgery after your main surgery (the IM nailing operation). Other than getting back home quicker, what other advantages you think it gave you over just the conventional standard illazarov procedure would have given. Thanks
Quote from: Sanity on November 20, 2019, 03:05:43 PMWat were the advantages you think you got with an additional surgery after your main surgery (the IM nailing operation). Other than getting back home quicker, what other advantages you think it gave you over just the conventional standard illazarov procedure would have given. Thanks
I heard that the nail prevents the leg from getting too crooked if the device is lengthening unevenly. Other than that, none.
What social advantages did you receive after cosmetic limb lengthening surgery?
Can you walk normally or do u walk a bit funny? When I say normally I mean as if you never had the surgery. Can somebody can tell that you had it just by looking at the way u walk.
Can you run/play high intensity sports/dance/kick? Are quick sharp movements too much for your legs. Are they too stiff? How much of your athletic ability pre-lengthening have u maintained would u say?
What is the safest method for either Tibia and Femur. External or Internal, LATN/LON? And assuming price isnt an issue, which one would u give the most height with safest recovery back to normal life
Who is the best and safest doctor outside the US (assuming price isnt an issue)
Quote from: chaseyyyeung98 on December 07, 2019, 05:53:53 AMCan you walk normally or do u walk a bit funny? When I say normally I mean as if you never had the surgery. Can somebody can tell that you had it just by looking at the way u walk.
My walk is a little different than before LL. It's less springy. Somewhere between natural and walking in 3" platform shoes. But nobody has ever told me I walk funny, or implied something was wrong with my legs just from seeing me walk.
QuoteCan you run/play high intensity sports/dance/kick? Are quick sharp movements too much for your legs. Are they too stiff? How much of your athletic ability pre-lengthening have u maintained would u say?
I never wrote about my athleticism much on here in the past because I almost never play sports, but a little while ago I played 3-on-3 basketball with some middle and high school kids. They were all shorter than me, probably 5'4 to 5'7. I was able to run the court with them fine: I could always make it back on defense and get a hand in their face. However, their footwork was a lot better than mine: they could get separation from me at will, so I didn't make any blocks.
It's just harder to move bigger things. Imagine playing baseball with a bat that's 3" longer than regulation. It's harder to swing and will go slower. But you could use it, right? That's a good analogy for my legs at this point.
About stiffness, that seems to be getting a little worse as time passes. I'm planning to stretch more to alleviate that. Honestly, I've been slacking off on my stretching for the past couple of years.
QuoteWhat is the safest method for either Tibia and Femur. External or Internal, LATN/LON? And assuming price isnt an issue, which one would u give the most height with safest recovery back to normal life
I'd imagine that the safest is full external tibias, due to being the least invasive. Just break the leg and put a few pins in it, and that's all. It's what I was planning to do originally in Serbia until that started to not be an option, so I went to Beijing instead and got LON, since that's what they mostly did there. I thought of doing full external there, but the cost to stay in the hospital for 4-5 more months was prohibitive.
QuoteWho is the best and safest doctor outside the US (assuming price isnt an issue)
I don't know much about that since I'm no longer in the market for LL. Probably Dr. Lee in South Korea.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on December 07, 2019, 07:41:18 AMMy walk is a little different than before LL. It's less springy. Somewhere between natural and walking in 3" platform shoes. But nobody has ever told me I walk funny, or implied something was wrong with my legs just from seeing me walk.
I never wrote about my athleticism much on here in the past because I almost never play sports, but a little while ago I played 3-on-3 basketball with some middle and high school kids. They were all shorter than me, probably 5'4 to 5'7. I was able to run the court with them fine: I could always make it back on defense and get a hand in their face. However, their footwork was a lot better than mine: they could get separation from me at will, so I didn't make any blocks.
It's just harder to move bigger things. Imagine playing baseball with a bat that's 3" longer than regulation. It's harder to swing and will go slower. But you could use it, right? That's a good analogy for my legs at this point.
About stiffness, that seems to be getting a little worse as time passes. I'm planning to stretch more to alleviate that. Honestly, I've been slacking off on my stretching for the past couple of years.
I'd imagine that the safest is full external tibias, due to being the least invasive. Just break the leg and put a few pins in it, and that's all. It's what I was planning to do originally in Serbia until that started to not be an option, so I went to Beijing instead and got LON, since that's what they mostly did there. I thought of doing full external there, but the cost to stay in the hospital for 4-5 more months was prohibitive.
I don't know much about that since I'm no longer in the market for LL. Probably Dr. Lee in South Korea.
Here you say your footwork is slow and all....and your analogy explained it ...
Bt do you think if you did your surgery in the early 20s and trained hard, stretched a lot you could be back to normal in terms of athleticism? What about dance? Can you elaborate on that?
If by normal you mean exactly the same as before surgery, I doubt it. You have a biomechanically different body. All that additional distal mass would be difficult to overcome just with stretching and exercise. At some point the body maxes out.
Torque is the issue. The farther the end of something is from its point of attachment, it gets harder and harder to move. Dancing and kicking are especially more difficult after LL because of the extra torque required to move the longer legs that remain attached only at the pelvis.
Quote from: Montreal172 on December 07, 2019, 08:22:02 PMDo you believe the after-effects would have been less worst if you did the 3 inches on femur instead with Stryde for example ?
Read your entire diary man, you had one hell of a journey 
Quite possibly. I think the muscles around my tibias are maxed out in terms of how much bigger/stronger they can get. I think the quads/glutes/hamstrings could've grown more post-op to handle the new biomechanics better. And the calf muscles : tibia length : thigh muscles : femur length ratios probably work better the other way around as well.
But in terms of cosmetics, I think high knees look better than low knees. Here's an old thread this just reminded me of. Caterpillars. 
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2043.msg32541#msg32541
And idiosyncratic to me, I had always had really tight hamstrings, so I might have avoided a potential problem up there by doing tibias.
Which is lower risk and has a better chance of you returning to normal life without any complications, change in gait or ability to play sports/make quick movements/dance external tibia or internal femur
(This also presumes that you lengthen a reasonable amount)
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