Waiting 3 months vs 1 year for second surgery

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Hi all,

I had a consultation with a doc that said that the (outside of quad lengthening) tibias can be done as early as 3 months into consolidation phase after femur lengthening (6 months after initial surgery date on femurs) for best bang for buck in respect to time. But, it's much easier to wait a full year after femurs before doing tibia lengthening.

Wanted to know the forums thoughts on which route is better and why? Is there a major difference in result and success, or is it a matter of pain? My goal would be to save time, but I'm not in any particular rush.

What do you guys think?

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Quote from: BreaktoGrow on July 05, 2022, 12:33:44 AMHi all,

I had a consultation with a doc that said that the (outside of quad lengthening) tibias can be done as early as 3 months into consolidation phase after femur lengthening (6 months after initial surgery date on femurs) for best bang for buck in respect to time. But, it's much easier to wait a full year after femurs before doing tibia lengthening.

Wanted to know the forums thoughts on which route is better and why? Is there a major difference in result and success, or is it a matter of pain? My goal would be to save time, but I'm not in any particular rush.

What do you guys think?

Do you mean you want to get it done as soon as possible but you can wait a little longer for surgery and recovery?

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I mean, of the two cases:

1) Get femur, wait 3 months into consolidation (6 months from surgery date)

OR

2) Get femur, wait 1 full year, get tibia

What's the benefit of waiting a full year? If I was to get tibia 6 months in, is it just a matter of additional pain or will it impact how much I can lengthen, etc

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I believe the benefits of having the second surgery 12 months after the first surgery is that:
1) Your first segment is just about done with consolidation, so your second segment can consolidate faster (I.e. your second segment won’t be slowed down consolidating).
2) Your first segment muscles are mostly stretched and flexibility is mostly restored, so it’s easier to stretch your second segment muscles and lengthen faster and more. Many of the tibia and femur muscles are interconnected, so muscle tightness in one segment affects muscle tightness in the other segment.

Of course, you will have to invest more time.

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Quote from: HeightJourney2021 on July 05, 2022, 02:42:08 AMI believe the benefits of having the second surgery 12 months after the first surgery is that:
1) Your first segment is just about done with consolidation, so your second segment can consolidate faster (I.e. your second segment won’t be slowed down consolidating).
2) Your first segment muscles are mostly stretched and flexibility is mostly restored, so it’s easier to stretch your second segment muscles and lengthen faster and more. Many of the tibia and femur muscles are interconnected, so muscle tightness in one segment affects muscle tightness in the other segment.

Of course, you will have to invest more time.

Thanks for your explanation. I am still trying to understand how it works on everyone in LL. Is this correct? If a person does LL on femur and tibia at the same time, the success chance could be lower and recovery time may be longer. If he does one at a time and wait until the segment recovered, and does another segment, the results could be better and faster recovery time???

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Yes.