You told you were able to play football without problem, pay attention cause after ATL most of the people claim to be totally different. If you have just a little discomfort I would avoid it.
BodyBuilder here has done it and a shortening after that, you can ask him something more before.
Hello
Yes I read BodyBuilder's posts this is mainly why I did not want to do it. And if I knew I will end up doing it I would go for more than 8 cm. But my discomfort is not improving with time and Dr Salameh told me that I will keep my strength after that surgery. But to be frank I can say I want to do it at 55% and 45% not to do it. I will take that risk as I took the same and even bigger risk to do LL.
Some time, I think online posts make us fear everything than in real life. For example, if we read posts on this web site, LL seems to be a very dangerous thing but in realty I meet other Doctor Salameh's patients, they including myself have no problem. In general but not everybody, we tend to express ourselves online mainly when things got bad.
I will let you know the outcome. I want Dr Salameh to do all of his best so I will not regret my choice.
Best regards friends
Jackson 5
Quote from: Highest on October 26, 2020, 12:50:50 PMDid you end up finding out exactly how much you lengthened each leg? Will you be getting ATL on both legs?
Yes I want to do it at both legs
Quote from: jackson5 on October 26, 2020, 02:09:37 PMHello
Yes I read BodyBuilder's posts this is mainly why I did not want to do it. And if I knew I will end up doing it I would go for more than 8 cm. But my discomfort is not improving with time and Dr Salameh told me that I will keep my strength after that surgery. But to be frank I can say I want to do it at 55% and 45% not to do it. I will take that risk as I took the same and even bigger risk to do LL.
Some time, I think online posts make us fear everything than in real life. For example, if we read posts on this web site, LL seems to be a very dangerous thing but in realty I meet other Doctor Salameh's patients, they including myself have no problem. In general but not everybody, we tend to express ourselves online mainly when things got bad.
I will let you know the outcome. I want Dr Salameh to do all of his best so I will not regret my choice.
Best regards friends
Jackson 5
I did LL too (even if not tibia) and I think that the pain and complications rate is definitely overrated, so I agree with you, but if you can avoid ATL I think it’s better. ATL is used even in the Flat foot surgery and I’ve heard about many people that can’t come back to the previous status, unable even to run.
I just say this to warn, this is what I’ve heard in other contexts, I hope the best recovery for you beyond the choice you’ll make.
Quote from: Tartar on October 26, 2020, 04:19:13 PMI did LL too (even if not tibia) and I think that the pain and complications rate is definitely overrated, so I agree with you, but if you can avoid ATL I think it’s better. ATL is used even in the Flat foot surgery and I’ve heard about many people that can’t come back to the previous status, unable even to run.
I just say this to warn, this is what I’ve heard in other contexts, I hope the best recovery for you beyond the choice you’ll make.
Hi Tartar,
Thank you for your message. Dr Salameh's technique seems different from other's one. I will try and told you the truth as always. I plan to do it the 25th of this month. How much did you lengthened and what's your starting height?
Best regards
Jackson 5
Hi jackson5 how did your atl surgery go?
Quote from: Highest on November 18, 2020, 12:03:44 PMHi jackson5 how did your atl surgery go?
Hi Highest,
Yes I did it finally and only good news. Now I know for sure it was a better choice to do that surgery with Dr Salameh and Dr Schmidt. I had many doubts at the beginning but now I made the best choice. I'm recovering at home so I will keep you updated but now I have all the strength in my feet. And a BIG BIG surprise for me is that Dr Salameh's per-cutaneous ATL is a magic thing. When he told that to me, I thought it is not far from other techniques but it is. I will post photos and video I made with him int the patient's room after cutting my faces (lets stay anonymous :-)) but I only have two small points on each foot almost not noticeable. I though I will return with two big scars on my feet but nothing. In two weeks the scars will disappear as they are very very small. That's magic for me.
Stay tuned photos and videos are coming.
Jackson5
Hello Guys!
As I promise you, below the photos taken the day after the surgery. We can see only two small points, now they disappeared on my skin as if have nether done that surgery.
https://imgur.com/oHs7yij
https://imgur.com/APz56TN
Almost all my discomfort have gone. I'm now as if I have nether done LL 
. I can say this height is all natural
The cracking sound have reduced at almost 90%
No discomfort when standing still or walk for hours. I have not yet experiment standing still for something 2 hours but after that surgey with my day to day life, I never experienced that discomfort feeling in my feet again even after running as it was the case before.
I have done a video with Dr Salameh where he explained how he did that surgery but I need to cut my face before posting it.
Yes I would do that ATL perhaps more sooner but I don't regret to try my best before doing it.
If I think back to the wall story, I made a better choice to go to Dr Salameh and Dr Schmidt and to be frank with you I didn't know what per-cutaneous surgery means but the end result is here, it's like I have never done ATL surgery.
And with that ATL well done, I'm like my height is natural because I no longer have discomfort in my legs and feet. This all journey is at its end now and it was the better choice of my life to do the surgery and to choose the right doctors. You can do LL with another doctor and then do ATL with Dr Salameh.
I will try to post the video as soon as possible.
Good luck for the new LLers!
Best regards
Jackson5
Wait you did 9.5 cm on your tibias?
Good question, because it's very very difficult to know exactly what you have done.
1- All mark you putted on the device will fade out.
2- The cut in the bone on x-rays will fade out with time
3- Track strictly every turn of the screw but sometime screws will loosen and you don't know where they exactly were before
4- You height change in the same day so you must take your height before and after the wall process at the same hour in the day.
So if I went for the last option, I've gone from 168.5 cm to 175 cm so 6.5 cm but "I think" I have done 7 cm on left leg and 6 cm on the right.
At mean 6.5 cm one leg (left) needed ATL and the other seemed not but after doing ATL I'm very satisfied and sense to be free from inflexibility.
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