48 y.o. male, 173.5cm+9cm=182.5cm Doc.Barinov Volgograd.

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Hello to all lengtheners,

I'm an italian guy doing full external with the Ilizarov apparatus. I've almost reached my goal, I'm and I will remain at 9 (I wanted 10). I had to stop because of bone cutting.
It's the 11th month that I'm here and I'm now dealing with the axis correction, on both legs, they were in a pretty bad condition: verticality was just a vague memory for my legs!
So far it's been a very demanding experience with an inflamed disk herniation l5-s1 and arthrosis on both knees which I didn't know of until I got here. Everything is possible with discipline and effort. I would like to encourage all the older ones and all the people that have injuries or issues that make the lengthening a bit more complicated...

ciao

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...Doctor stopped me because of the bone cutting and infection. My proportion are great as I have long femors so my legs are perfect now.

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...thanks Morisette, but I have to correct my axes and other issues. Still a long way to go

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Hi Bigpo,
Over here 9cm is relatively normal!
In any case I'm quite flexible so I didn't really have big issues like ballerina...
I thing the biggest problem has been the strength of the soft tissues which pulled to the level of causing instability of the apparaturs...

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Sapevo che il dott. Catagni operava solo in caso di nanismo; del dott.Pili non sapevo nulla, leggo che è un medico molto attento e preparato.
Considera che avevo raccolto informazioni circa 5 anni fa e all'epoca ero indirizzato all' internal femor. In tempi più recenti ho deciso per la Russia perche' è qui che l'apparato è stato concepito e quindi i dottori hanno una consolidata esperienza.

P.s.per rispetto verso gli altri membri, ogni altro mio messaggio sarà in inglese. Ti chiedo di fare lo stesso

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Obviously  had wrong information about Italian doctors

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Quote from: Mark on September 29, 2016, 12:10:04 PM