Hi everyone,
I noticed many LLers contact me regarding why their bodies behave a certain way (like wide legs, duckass etc), and like our old doc, we were never taught nor warned about these side effects and how to counter them. So I thought I'd give you some of the stretching I found MOST HELPFUL, TARGETED and SAFE for femur lengthening (since I don't know the first thing about tibia LL).
REMEMBER that for every cm you lengthen, it takes even more time to lengthen/stretch the soft tissues to match, and soft tissue lengthening is not a linear process. It is different for each individual's flexibility AND this is where most doctors wipe their hands off further responsibility because their job was simply to lengthen your bones, and not your soft tissues. And soft tissues are waaaay harder to lengthen/stretch than bones are. Of course, the longer you lengthen, the more time it takes to recover etc.
3 THINGS you need to overcome when you're lengthening/recovering from lengthening :
- Short soft tissues resulting in wide legs, duckass
- Loss of muscles (esp abs and glutes) resulting in side-to-side zombie walking
- Stamina deconditioning resulting in extreme fatigue which you can correct via regular swimming and "walking/crutching" in increasing distances when you can/safe for you to do so
WIDE LEGS
It happens the moment your femur bone is longer than your IT band
SOLUTION > Need to stretch out your IT band (IT bands unlike muscles, cannot be lengthened, hence, when all else fails like me, you need to get your IT band released. It worked magically for me!)
DUCK ASS (Anterior Pelvic Tilt)
It happens the moment your femur bone is longer than your quad, hamstring and psoas/hip flexor muscles
SOLUTION > Need to stretch/lengthen out your quad, hamstring and psoas/hip flexor muscles
PSOAS STRETCH
QUAD STRETCH
HAMSTRING STRETCH
Besides STRETCHING/LENGTHENING soft tissues, you'll need to rebuild your GLUTES and ABS
GLUTES (no squats please because it would add too much load on your LL nails)
ABS (regular sit up exercises are not optimal because it shortens your psoas/hip flexors)
These are what I found most helpful. Over cycling (esp the ones where you're hunched over are not optimal either because it doesn't help your hip flexor/psoas stretching). If you've weight bearing nails, then crutching slowly with a bit more distance everyday will help you recover your stamina. If your nails are not weight bearing, swimming helps you on many levels (stretch/stamina/muscles)
Hope you find these helpful. They helped me a lot because I can see how my body is getting straighter and stronger every single day.
UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016
Really helpful posts Unicorn, thanks. I want opioids so badly! 😂
I'll definitely be doing these stretches too once I'm able. Great photos.
Thank you for taking time and effort to share much needed information.
Quote from: Sweden on July 25, 2018, 11:37:24 PM[post]
What a rude post in so many parts.
Quote from: Unicorn888 on July 27, 2018, 09:59:00 AMHi everyone,
I noticed many LLers contact me regarding why their bodies behave a certain way (like wide legs, duckass etc), and like our old doc, we were never taught nor warned about these side effects and how to counter them. So I thought I'd give you some of the stretching I found MOST HELPFUL, TARGETED and SAFE for femur lengthening (since I don't know the first thing about tibia LL).
REMEMBER that for every cm you lengthen, it takes even more time to lengthen/stretch the soft tissues to match, and soft tissue lengthening is not a linear process. It is different for each individual's flexibility AND this is where most doctors wipe their hands off further responsibility because their job was simply to lengthen your bones, and not your soft tissues. And soft tissues are waaaay harder to lengthen/stretch than bones are. Of course, the longer you lengthen, the more time it takes to recover etc.
3 THINGS you need to overcome when you're lengthening/recovering from lengthening :
- Short soft tissues resulting in wide legs, duckass
- Loss of muscles (esp abs and glutes) resulting in side-to-side zombie walking
- Stamina deconditioning resulting in extreme fatigue which you can correct via regular swimming and "walking/crutching" in increasing distances when you can/safe for you to do so
WIDE LEGS
It happens the moment your femur bone is longer than your IT band
SOLUTION > Need to stretch out your IT band (IT bands unlike muscles, cannot be lengthened, hence, when all else fails like me, you need to get your IT band released. It worked magically for me!)
DUCK ASS (Anterior Pelvic Tilt)
It happens the moment your femur bone is longer than your quad, hamstring and psoas/hip flexor muscles
SOLUTION > Need to stretch/lengthen out your quad, hamstring and psoas/hip flexor muscles
PSOAS STRETCH
QUAD STRETCH
HAMSTRING STRETCH
Besides STRETCHING/LENGTHENING soft tissues, you'll need to rebuild your GLUTES and ABS
GLUTES (no squats please because it would add too much load on your LL nails)
ABS (regular sit up exercises are not optimal because it shortens your psoas/hip flexors)
These are what I found most helpful. Over cycling (esp the ones where you're hunched over are not optimal either because it doesn't help your hip flexor/psoas stretching). If you've weight bearing nails, then crutching slowly with a bit more distance everyday will help you recover your stamina. If your nails are not weight bearing, swimming helps you on many levels (stretch/stamina/muscles)
Hope you find these helpful. They helped me a lot because I can see how my body is getting straighter and stronger every single day.
Thank you very much for sharing all of these, Unicorn.
Quote from: Sweden on July 25, 2018, 11:37:24 PM
I understand you had a better life before(of course).
£155.000 is a lot of money but if all of this made you broke today you weren’t rich to begin with, only financially stable.
If you’d secure a passive income that can’t fail even if all of this happened to you, first then you’re somewhat rich and money wouldn’t bother you.
By the way, being RICH is not a requirement for a successful CLL outcome. We all somehow coughed up the money to pay Guichet £55k and was promised that we'd recover after 2 months of lengthening and 1 month of rehabilitation.
Hence, many of my classmates actually borrowed, took out loans and even remortgaged their parents' home to realize this dream. So you can only imagine if recovery doesn't happen after 3 months but drags out past 24 months, the expenditures will seriously add up when your income stream is zero.
So just to be clear for potential CLLers, take out a cosmetic surgery insurance if possible (one recent LLer was quoted €300 in Germany), keep a spare £20k in case things go wrong... and in my case, even when I had more cash savings, I lost everything while trading during the trauma of 4 surgeries. I currently rely on kind friends and family to support the little life I lead and even with that, I am £100k in debt and am determined to pay everyone back in this life time.
Hence, yes, non-millionaires or billionaires are entitled to this surgery too. But do set some money aside for complications or loss of job (3-4 of our classmates lost their jobs as they couldn't recover within the 3-month time frame that was promised by our doctor) and I am EXTREMELY lucky to live in the UK where medical is FREE and it happens to be a LOT BETTER than the private care that we all paid through the nose for.
You lost $750.000 in tradings?
There is just so much I can say about this.
Quote from: Sweden on July 28, 2018, 04:55:16 AMYou lost $750.000 in tradings?
There is just so much I can say about this.
Please don't. I made a lot of stupid decisions under duress and trust me, I hate myself and flog myself everyday for ruining my own life. One moment, I was retired and had no money issues due to a steady trading income and other, and lo and behold, I find myself in debt by £100k
So, I don't need one more person to mansplain to me how stupid I have been, I know it. I look at it in the mirror everyday. And I realize that life is so fragile that simple things like trading requires a certain zen mindset and not the duress & desperation I was under.
So, this is my punishment and my own cross to bear. I don't need more people judging, pointing fingers at me and secretly thinking I deserve all the misfortune that befell me because of my vanity. I know it already, and I feel worse than what anyone can say to me or think of me.
Sweden get lost...and besides who are you to judge anyone, didnt you go to Sarin? A decision that you probably took under stress/anxiety over your height. Man you need to chill. Unicorn is sharing everything she knows to help us all and you are trying to put her down in her recovery?? Man fu*k off
The lack of empathy of some people here is astonishing. I also made many stupid decisions and trusted people I shouldn't have trusted. I don't understand why I was so stupid. I also hate myself and flog myself everyday for ruining my own life, but I think that should be our own privilege and nobody else's. I don't want anybody else to point fingers at me either. We don't deserve this TY judging and mansplaining from anyone. It's true we chose to do this, but that doesn't mean we have to be blamed when things go sore. I really hope insensitive people like Sweden and some classmates of mine get what they deserve. Go fk off you all.
mansplain? ahahhaa are you a feminist?
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