Interested in leg lengthening

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Quote from: giorgi98 on August 15, 2017, 03:55:24 AMJust out of curiousity are you still on the forums because you are planning on another surgery or are you just supporting the current members here and checking up on news?

If you are asking me, I lost one year of university to have this surgery. And the boredom of not doing anything is killing me. However, I don't discard doing tibias some years into the future. Probably in Italy.

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How did it feel like though? to finally be taller, I would imagine its like thinking your in a dream

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Quote from: giorgi98 on August 15, 2017, 06:53:17 AMHow did it feel like though? to finally be taller, I would imagine its like thinking your in a dream

You are the same but taller. In my case, I feel like I removed an ugly mole from my face (being too short to now normal short). That being said I wasn't too depressed because of my height, to begin with, it's more like I didn't like the discrimination I faced due to being short. Don't expect any magic but yes you feel better about yourself.

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Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on August 13, 2017, 10:43:03 PMWhat I meant is that at 4 months I was able to walk to the point that nobody would think I had surgery = no limp. I remember that at that time my gait would revert to being weird if I stayed seated for a long time or if I did too much training. This reduced a lot until now (almost 6 months post op). I don't feel normal however.

Sorry to keep probing, but what do you mean by "not feeling normal"?

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Quote from: Frogger on August 15, 2017, 07:49:27 PMSorry to keep probing, but what do you mean by "not feeling normal"?

femur lengthening messes with the biomechanical axis and how one walks. It can take a long time for one to adapt to the longer thigh bone and "feel normal" and walk with no gait. This is also dependent on how much you lengthen the femur by.

With tibia lengthening, one does not have this problem since the biomechanical axis is not changed.

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Quote from: Frogger on August 15, 2017, 07:49:27 PMSorry to keep probing, but what do you mean by "not feeling normal"?

I don't really know if it's the little bit of tightness around the knee or the change in biomechanics. I walk with no gait since a while ago, nobody who sees me thinks I had surgery. I went to a massive family party and while everyone agreed I was taller (I wore my flattest shoes and before I used to wear lifts), nobody told me I was walking weird. They even saw me going up and downstairs. I also feel a little bit of the nail in my right hip.

Quote from: MirinHeight on August 15, 2017, 09:20:33 PM
femur lengthening messes with the biomechanical axis and how one walks. It can take a long time for one to adapt to the longer thigh bone and "feel normal" and walk with no gait. This is also dependent on how much you lengthen the femur by.

With tibia lengthening, one does not have this problem since the biomechanical axis is not changed.

Even if the axis is not changed, I would expect people with tibial lengthening feeling different. Have you done LL?

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The biomechanics don't alter only due to axis but mainly due to added height. I felt diiffent the first months after I started walking after LL but I adapted to it soon.

I believe too that femur lengthening causes a little more difficulties than tibias in walking and especially in how walking looks but if someone does not lengthen more than 6-7 cm I don't think it will be a problem.
I wonder if with 2 LLs the walking becomes harder or due to almost normal ratio between femurs and tibias the walking is about the samee and not harder.
I wonder if someone from the few who did both segments could answer otherwise I'll answer personally in 2 years.

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Surely one can get used to the walking. But my question is , will you ever get used to it?, I wouldnt mind walking funny for a few months thats natural after the huge increase but I would assume that you would walk normally after a certain period of time.