Tibia LON with dr. sarin - Feb11th 2022

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I have done my surgery on TIBIA on 11Feb, 2022 at Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute .
Surgery got started at 1pm and completed by 4pm.
They performed surgery using Spinal anesthesia, got anxious as they were performing while I was awake, which is normal.
I was able to move toes after surgery and had moderate  pain on legs on the night of surgery day.
I had to stay for 4 days in hospital, had soft diet. This 4 days I was on epidural, later moved to sarin's guest house.
Now I'm on 5th day of lengthening phase, turning 1mm per day, taking ultraset and flexora- D tablets to avoid moderate pain.

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Hi Osho,

Congratulations on the surgery. Hope everything is smooth and wish you a speedy recovery! What type of external devices does Dr. Sarin use and is also Physio included in the duration of your hospital stay? How much do you plan on lengthening?
I also plan to undergo LON Tibias. I will be following your diary closely.

-AsianCyborg

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No physio will be available during hospital stay (4 days) but in guest house you will find 2 physios to help you with day to day  exercises.
Physio will start from 8th day of surgery. Here ilizarov external frames are used. I'm planning for 7-8 cms.

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Would 7-8cm be alittle too excessive? I heard the safe limit is 5cm and the absolute max is 6CM. On the other hand, I heard that the absolute limit you can lengthen on each bone is 20% and you might need a Achille Tendon release. Maybe it’s different for external frames in your case as I heard you can lengthen alittle more with the ilizarov frames.

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You can lengthen upto 22.5 % of bone length.
I'm doing (extrenal +LON), so 7-8cms is not a problem.
I got my xray today after 10 days of lengthening, got lengthen 9mm.
We see callous formation already in the gap...here onwards I will turn 1.25mm/day.

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Lengthening at 1.25mm/Day seems excessive. The daily lengthening rate on the Tibias is 0.75mm based on my anecdotal research.
Will you be posting X-Ray's here along your journey?

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My x-ray after 10 days distraction :

https://imgur.com/a/OPyAauB

I will post 20th day x-ray on 10th March.

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Limb Lengthening with Dr.Sarin the Butcher of Delhi?

Good Luck mate, you'll need it. I wouldn't set foot in an Indian "leg lengthening clinic/butcher shop if you payed me."

Hopefully you are Indian & not a foreigner.. maybe he will treat his own countrymen better.

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Quote from: Tinku on February 23, 2022, 01:56:10 PMThis 4 days I was on epidural, later moved to sarin's guest house.

surely by guest house you mean the hotel [http://stepinnhotels.com/]? based upon my research the guest house has been relinquished and replaced with a one star hotel at Gurgaon [not inclusive] with limited services and zero amenities one would reasonably expect; like toilet paper.