Can you fly back to your home country after the lengthening phase?

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Quote from: Android on March 09, 2018, 07:43:24 PMYes, many doctors will allow you to go home after lengthening.

Especially if you are considering LON or LATN, it's safe to go home after locking those nails; you won't have frames on any longer either. You'll want to find a local physiotherapist to restore your gait and range of motion (ROM). You'll fly back a year or so later to get the nails removed through a much simpler procedure, and you should be back to walking the next day.

Summary of what you could do: install frames, lengthen, correction, lock nails, remove frames, go home to consolidate, restore gait, return to clinic a year later to remove nails.

Android, am kinda confused after reading your pos (quoted above) , can you please clarify (to make sure that I am not misinformed) , when you say "Especially if you are considering LON or LATN, it's safe to go home after locking those nails; you won't have frames on any longer either. You'll want to find a local physiotherapist to restore your gait and range of motion (ROM). You'll fly back a year or so later to get the nails removed through a much simpler procedure, and you should be back to walking the next day." - are you saying the patient cannot walk even after nailing? (LATN) and can walk only after nail removal? I thought patients of LATN can walk (with crutches of course) afteer nailing and though the walk will be bad and only for a few minutes initially, gradually in a few months (after muscles stretched and callous is denser) patient can walk well (much before nail removal). Plz advise. Thanks.

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You got it right.

After nailing, even though it's weight bearing, you won't be walking like your old self. You'll spend a couple months restoring your gait, initially with a walker like you said. You'll be close to normal after this point.

A year or two later, you should get the nails removed. The procedure is relatively quick, you'll probably only spend one night at the hospital and you'll be walking with a little soreness the next day.

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Quote from: Android on April 18, 2018, 10:00:29 PMYou got it right.

After nailing, even though it's weight bearing, you won't be walking like your old self. You'll spend a couple months restoring your gait, initially with a walker like you said. You'll be close to normal after this point.

A year or two later, you should get the nails removed. The procedure is relatively quick, you'll probably only spend one night at the hospital and you'll be walking with a little soreness the next day.

Thanks Android