The growing mindset here is to avoid ATL because you will never make a 'full recovery', but is walking around with an 'intact' achilles tendon, stretched 2 to 3 inches, actually any better? I doubt it.
If you lengthen too much you're in a bad position either way. Your can do a gastrocnemius-soleus recession as an alternative to Achille tendon lengthening, but the only study I saw on gastroc recession side effects said patients experience a permanent 20% decrease in strength, so I don't see it as much better of an alternative to ATL anyway.
too late 
I had ATL, first few days have been bad, but after 2 weeks I am feeling very good now, I can walk better than before with no pain and the doctor said we will remove the wires from my feet in other 2 weeks.
I will let you know if I recover 100% or not, but I trust the doctor who guaranteed me that there are no long term consequences
I think, but it is just an opinion, a lot could be related to the method you use for ATL and how long you lengthen the tendon.
Quote from: Camillo on March 07, 2017, 08:09:02 PMtoo late I had ATL, first few days have been bad, but after 2 weeks I am feeling very good now, I can walk better than before with no pain and the doctor said we will remove the wires from my feet in other 2 weeks.
I will let you know if I recover 100% or not, but I trust the doctor who guaranteed me that there are no long term consequences
I think, but it is just an opinion, a lot could be related to the method you use for ATL and how long you lengthen the tendon.
Even without long term consequences, you will not recover to 100%. The numerous studies on ATL, including the ones I had posted prove that it is not possible to return to 100%.
Camilo, are you sure you are not 178 cm? 172+6
Quote from: 682 on March 07, 2017, 08:31:23 PMEven without long term consequences, you will not recover to 100%. The numerous studies on ATL, including the ones I had posted prove that it is not possible to return to 100%.
I hope you are wrong. That study anyway refers to a specific case of Achille Tendon Rupture and excessive lengthening. Moreover, I have not seen many of them, I found instead (when I was searching before doing the ATL) a lot of studies about ATL that did not mention long term consequences. Moreover, ATL is done for a lot of problems, not only as a consequence of LL and equino feet. So I am not that worried honestly.
Quote from: onemorefoot on March 11, 2017, 09:06:51 PMCamilo, are you sure you are not 178 cm? 172+6
I checked my height before going to doctor last time, and it was 180 cm. Since then, I am doing one more cm on the right and 0.5 on the left leg (I had a 0.5 cm difference in the two legs before the LL). Considering you will lose 0.5 cm when you remove the EF, I should end up being around 180 cm.
Oh, ok, you Will lengthen 9 cm and gain 7.5+172=180 cm.
Quote from: Camillo on March 13, 2017, 09:31:37 PMI hope you are wrong. That study anyway refers to a specific case of Achille Tendon Rupture and excessive lengthening. Moreover, I have not seen many of them, I found instead (when I was searching before doing the ATL) a lot of studies about ATL that did not mention long term consequences. Moreover, ATL is done for a lot of problems, not only as a consequence of LL and equino feet. So I am not that worried honestly.
Atl is done mainly in people with diabetes who will get amputated if they don't do it.
Also in people with chronic tendonitis who suffer from pain and can't even walk properly
So atl is done only in very serious cases that patients risk for much bigger complications and is the last solution.
If a healthy people that wants to do a cosmetic surgery like LL believes that he is in the same situation like people who have diabetes and face the danger of amputation, and want to do atl to gain 1-2 cm more, then it is his choice.
But don't believe that your feet will be ever the same as before because the loss of tension and the weakening that go together with atl will completely change the feeling of your legs when you walk.
All these come from someone like me who did atl because he believed what his doctor told him and sees everyday how wrong he was to believe a doctor when all the researches show different things.
I hope that your case will be different and better than mine (although I've seen much worse atl cases than mine) but I really believe that atl doesn't worth at all just for gaining 1-2 cm more.
I wish you prove me wrong.
it's impossible to be anywhere near 100% after ATL unless you get additional surgeries or special devices to aid in walking.
very bad decision , especially after everything that's been posted here. I've been warning everyone for a long time not to do ATL
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