Koehne Diary 21/22 | Unilateral Tibia + Femur

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im not sure you can even call it mild ballerina. usually comes around 3cm and depends how fast you distract.

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Quote from: randy on April 07, 2022, 04:57:43 PMCan you give some details about the 600 Euros insurance Siegfried? Which company/plan? I want to check if the company will cover this with any surgeon in Germany for LL. Thanku

in Germany if you have statutory public health insurance will that cover complications from LL?

can you tell the name of this 600 Euros private insurance? Is it specifically linked to Kohne or all German doctors? I think its great to have this kind of coverage.

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i dont know the name right now. but you can email them and ask. no public health insurance does not cover complications from a cosmetic surgery.

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Quote from: Siegfried on April 15, 2022, 07:53:44 PMi dont know the name right now. but you can email them and ask. no public health insurance does not cover complications from a cosmetic surgery.

They have not responded to my enquiry. If you get some time to check the name of that insurance I would be very thankful Siegfried! I think everyone doing this in Germany should get it.

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Quote from: Siegfried on April 13, 2022, 10:15:40 AMim not sure you can even call it mild ballerina. usually comes around 3cm and depends how fast you distract.

I know what you are talking about! I feel it too doing unilateral tibia around 2 CM. It’s just like a tightness where your foot doesn’t want to go all the way flat, and you are scared to put more than 50 pounds on it and force it flat, but you are not stuck in a tippy toe position and can still force it into dorsiflexion with stretching.

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For tibia lengthening, I heard that it gets tougher around the 3cm mark or a little more. Tibia lengthening patients often say ballerina foot gets worse and lengthening usually needs to slow down from 0.75mm to 0.50mm daily.

It seems like that is what you have reported. Would you like to enter your thoughts into the above paragraph?

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got nothing to add. its no secret that the foot gets tigher after a few cm on tibia

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Siegfried,

How are you doing these days? How long did it take for tibia to consolidate enough to full weight bearing?

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Recovery is going well. No pain since post distraction and flexiblity is getting better with every day. I would say 7 months is the mark for full weight bearing on tibia with precise 2

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Hey Siegfried,
I have a silly question: In the Penzberg hospital, did you get a locker to keep your stuff safely while you undergo surgery? I do not know if you had family with you, but if someone goes alone to get surgery, do they have to worry about it?
And did you get an internet connection in the hospital?

Wish you good luck for your second leg!