Running speed seems the be the the best measurement of LL success, because so many LL patients are soon able to do any kind of exercise, but running remains the biggest challenge.
Could you please share your running experience?
Here some videos:
Me after 6 months:
Me after 9.5 months:
after 1 year:
after 1.5 years:
3 years post LL:
The people that I personally met are with very few exceptions doing extremely well and after 6 months able to do pretty much anything. However, they are not running or if they try they see they are not fast and it is no fun. In fact, nobody from the patients I talked to that had LL within the last year say that they are running as fast as before.
I also have seen videos from patients, and though the patient's say they can run, I am able to see that they are running in a bit unnatural way and are not fast.
Why is running hard?
Biometrics? Less muscle strength because muscle not fully recovered? Or is the muscle still stretched? Or is it because flexibility is less? Or is it because there is an implant in the legs?
Quote from: FDR101 on September 10, 2017, 05:59:41 PM
With regard to muscle and soft tissue, it depends on whether new muscle and soft tissue grows along with the new bone or if the previous muscle tissue is simply stretched on a permanent basis.
How do you feel running longer distances? Most LL running videoes are like 15 second clips.
Thanks for your encouragement.
Very interesting questions, indeed, if the muscles stretch or generate new tissue. I think over time stretching gets replaced but nobody, even not Dr. Monegal, has been able to answer me if 100% will be replaced rather than stretched and how much time it takes.
Long distances: I tire more quickly. You could think that this is just due to fact of lower cardio fitness as I do not commonly run nowadays, however, I think I have the same cardio fitness as before when biking.
Quote from: Auron on September 10, 2017, 12:05:38 PM
Maybe he even has some videos 
Running videos from anybody would be nice, so that we can as a community compare, and see where to improve.
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