5'7 to 6'2-6'3 possible?

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Quote from: way2short on July 23, 2024, 07:41:39 AMtitle
i dont care about not being as athletic, why does a grown man need to run or jump anyways?
i want to go from short to tall, im being greedy because i think the pain and money is just too much to not get a height halo after surgery. short to average is just not enough.
should i go for betz?

So, you are 1.70 m and want to be 1.87-1.90 m ?
Are you serious ?... or you are a kind of joker ?

I was 1.71 and I got 12 cm, so 1.83... minus a 1 cm discrepancy, I decreased to 1.82 m !... And that is great, because I was a rational and well balanced person.
But you are badly deviated, man, if you want 1.90 m !

So, be happy if you will gain 12 cm and you will be well proportioned and healthy !

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I hope everyone on this forum agrees that 20 cm is insane amount of lengthening and is unjustifiable. The upper limit is 15 cm from double LL and this is pushing it to the limit. It's more like 13 cm from staged quadrilateral (not simultaneous). 15 cm in 2 surgeries can be done only in very rare instances and depends on many things, most importantly how much can a patient push his tibia.

Only way to lengthen 15 cm is to lengthen tibia above recommended safe amount at 7 cm with external frames, which is considered not safe and only few patients can reach that amount without complications.

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Quote from: AnotherLLer on August 03, 2024, 12:35:56 PMI hope everyone on this forum agrees that 20 cm is insane amount of lengthening and is unjustifiable. The upper limit is 15 cm from double LL and this is pushing it to the limit. It's more like 13 cm from staged quadrilateral (not simultaneous). 15 cm in 2 surgeries can be done only in very rare instances and depends on many things, most importantly how much can a patient push his tibia.

Only way to lengthen 15 cm is to lengthen tibia above recommended safe amount at 7 cm with external frames, which is considered not safe and only few patients can reach that amount without complications.

As I said it is a case by case basis, you should not be judged by how much you want to lengthen. We are all here for various reasons. You can do 25+ cm if you wish to repeat those two surgeries 1.5-2 years apart, that's what I've been told.

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Quote from: onedaytall on July 30, 2024, 07:54:53 PMI used to think so too until I saw one of those promotional youtube videos that brag about lengthening results. Dude who did quadrilateral looked goofy AF walking on a treadmill. All legs and a shrimp torso. I literally laughed when I saw him.

Still beats being short tho. And you can always wear a large hoodie or something to hide your shrimp torso lol.

Out of pure curiosity, can you maybe find the link to the video?

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Why does it have to be 6'2? whats wrong with lengthening 7 cm fems and 5 cm tibs and being 6'1 from 5'7 you can realistically do this. One thing im realizing is the people who have the oddest request are the ones who limb lengthening will not satisfy them nor give them peace.

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Look at lengthening in terms of improvement more than the absolute number. Function is far more important than length, and it would be wise to stick within recommended safe limits and be a couple inches shorter than to go beyond that and never get back to total normal function.

Split between two segments, I'd say 5 inches absolute max if you want to hit the 6'0" mark.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 27, 2024, 04:22:01 AMLook at lengthening in terms of improvement more than the absolute number. Function is far more important than length, and it would be wise to stick within recommended safe limits and be a couple inches shorter than to go beyond that and never get back to total normal function.

Split between two segments, I'd say 5 inches absolute max if you want to hit the 6'0" mark.

It heavily depends on what you mean by function and how much is considered acceptable to you. If you define function as having 100% athleticism as before, then everyone loses at least some of it after the surgery. If you mean walking speed or angular deviation, it is not acceptable for most but might be acceptable for really short people where every inch matters.