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Quote from: 1team on August 06, 2024, 01:14:45 AMThe more cm you lengthen along the anatomical axis which is what happens with internal femur lengthening the more your legs are pushed into valgus.

Dr Birkholtz discussed this. You can do reverse planning method to get around this but now you have a nail going through your knee instead of your hip which comes with another set of problems. Other than proportion and function it is a problem people need to accept with larger lengthenings over 6.5cm.

I don't believe theoretically it should be this much. There's been a thread here about losing some amount of height due to femurs being slanted, but it only amounts to 0.5 cm at most.

Reliable doctors should prevent knock knees with lengthening.

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Of course proper orthopedic doctors who specialize in LL should be able to prevent knock knees, no matter the method used for lengthening. It just seems that some docs in Turkey are either incapable of doing that or are neglecting / overlooking that complication.

At least Buldu is clearly capable of correcting the alignment of bones since we've seen Meck's case here whose bones were corrected during the frame removal / nail locking surgeries.

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Yup can confirm that all of the 3 patients I saw at AFA was chinese patients, actually doing fine without issues tho. Don't know why they love LL especially in Turkey.

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I also thought about the operation with this doctor. But so far the alignment of the legs is a little confusing. In addition to the apparent X, for some reason many patients have an ankle that looks inside the axis. Perhaps this is due to muscle atrophy or the patients are standing in an uncomfortable position immediately after the operation. It would be cool if they photographed patients in a pose with their legs connected, in this case everything could be examined carefully. Maybe one of the veterans or doctors will confirm or refute our doubts