Quadrilateral lengthening @ the Paley Institute - tibias 4cm + femurs 6cm

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Would it be different if youbhad used stryde on Femurs only.
Also when did you walk with assistance as well as without for the first time post surgery.

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Quote from: totallyred on April 14, 2019, 04:04:10 PMWould it be different if youbhad used stryde on Femurs only.

How would I know? Aside from using STRYDE on one femur and PRECICE on the other + the tibia.

STRYDE is clearly superior to PRECICE because you can walk way, way sooner (1-2 weeks after the surgery), so your muscles will atrophy much less. There's no decision to make here. The difference in price is insignificant given the difference in recovery time and quality.

Femurs only vs. tibias+femurs is another question.

Quote from: totallyred on April 14, 2019, 04:04:10 PMAlso when did you walk with assistance as well as without for the first time post surgery.

What kind of assistance? Don't be lazy! Check my diary a few posts up for when I could walk with a walker vs. cane (I never used crutches). However, again, that's irrelevant, because nobody should do PRECICE any more.

In other news, mini-update:

• Yesterday the pain in the right knee almost disappeared (!). Like, literally, overnight. What I did was a bunch of adventures during the weekend, including river rafting and 2+ hours of driving an ATV. Maybe the vibrations from the ATV helped (sounds weird, but there are devices for sale that just vibrate your legs, for some alleged benefits). Anyway, let's see if the pain comes back.
• Today I was able to do 100 jumping jacks, without knee pain during or after.
• Also did 20 back squats with the empty bar (45 lbs), and 10 reps @ 65 lbs. This is not a big deal, given that 5 months ago, I was able to do 10 sets x 10 reps with a 50 lbs kettlebell. It's hard to keep good form: I tend to lean forward, and if I try to compensate, I feel like I'll fall backwards.

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Quote from: totallyred on April 14, 2019, 04:04:10 PMWould it be different if youbhad used stryde on Femurs only.

How would I know? Aside from using STRYDE on one femur and PRECICE on the other + the tibia.

STRYDE is clearly superior to PRECICE because you can walk way, way sooner (1-2 weeks after the surgery), so your muscles will atrophy much less. There's no decision to make here. The difference in price is insignificant given the difference in recovery time and quality.

Femurs only vs. tibias+femurs is another question.

Quote from: totallyred on April 14, 2019, 04:04:10 PMAlso when did you walk with assistance as well as without for the first time post surgery.

What kind of assistance? Don't be lazy! Check my diary a few posts up for when I could walk with a walker vs. cane (I never used crutches). However, again, that's irrelevant, because nobody should do PRECICE any more.

In other news, mini-update:

• Yesterday the pain in the right knee almost disappeared (!). Like, literally, overnight. What I did was a bunch of adventures during the weekend, including river rafting and 2+ hours of driving an ATV. Maybe the vibrations from the ATV helped (sounds weird, but there are devices for sale that just vibrate your legs, for some alleged benefits). Anyway, let's see if the pain comes back.
• Today I was able to do 100 jumping jacks, without knee pain during or after.
• Also did 20 back squats with the empty bar (45 lbs), and 10 reps @ 65 lbs. This is not a big deal, given that 5 months ago, I was able to do 10 sets x 10 reps with a 50 lbs kettlebell. It's hard to keep good form: I tend to lean forward, and if I try to compensate, I feel like I'll fall backwards.

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Thanks for the reply and good luck

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Thanks for the reply and good luck

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Hey man,

I hope that knee pain disappears for good asap!

Thanks for updates.

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Knee pain indeed seems kinda gone. Will see for sure next week when I go back to the gym.

Mini-update for Wednesday, April 17, 2019: I did 10 Smith squats[url=http://with 115 lbs today. The Smith machine helped a lot with balance. I could also jog for 2 minutes. Had to slow down to walking because of impact pain, in the left knee and right quad. Cardio-wise, I could have gone longer. On an [url=https://exrx.net/Aerobic/Exercises/EllipticalCrossTrainer]elliptical machine] with 115 lbs today. The Smith machine helped a lot with balance. I could also jog for 2 minutes. Had to slow down to walking because of impact pain, in the left knee and right quad. Cardio-wise, I could have gone longer. On an [url=https://exrx.net/Aerobic/Exercises/EllipticalCrossTrainer]elliptical machine I can go for 10-20 minutes, because it absorbs the landing impact.

Side note: when I walk with weight (e.g. a backpack) or when I exercise, I'm sweating WAY, WAY more than before the surgery. Nobody I know sweats that badly. Not sure why that is. I did lose some conditioning by being in a wheelchair for months, and I used to sweat before, but not to this level.

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Hi OYG

Congrats on your improvement on the knee pain!  It looks promising.  Hope you to recover soon!

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HI OverrideyourGenetics, Ive seen that you've apparently used Internal Precice 2 on both Femurs & Tibias....
Now please let me ask you:
1) How did each one feel, which one felt more unbearable & harder pain ; Tibias   or   Femurs?
2) Knee Pain, regarding to this do you feel that internal tibia= knee pain permenantly  or does femurs has that risk too?
3) Internal infection in femurs ? what really are the dangers and troubles of having a nail inside your bone canal did you take multiple antibiotics throughout your journey ?
4) Achieveing the maximum goals (8cm) in Femurs....for someone like me i am a girl and financially not rich so i get one shot at this and i am starting at 152 cm so getting the full and i mean FULL 8 cm is the only option....is that possible or are there other dimensions to the issue ?

*Thank you in advance & sorry for too many questions but there arent much patients that have been through both .

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Any updates for us OYG?