Athletic abilities after LL

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Quote from: crimsontide on July 01, 2016, 03:31:16 AMThink about this logically

you are breaking   2 healthy legs, and stretching the bone, nerves and tendons.

If you had a favorite athlete, and he had an accident where all this happened, you think he would ever be the same?

You think Messi, CRonnie7, or Djokovic would be the same after  having  this procedure?

Do you include that amount of cm in the accident or just the breaking of bones? Cause the lengthening is take longer time than in a accident. But yes it is a high risk, but if its not sure u be 100 % at 3 cm could you be that at just 1,5 cm or is it impossible to regin 100 % at any cm?

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Quote from: bar on July 01, 2016, 02:52:11 PMHi all, thank you for the answers! You are amazing.

I consult with a doctor, no one promise that I will be 100% back in shape, even only with 3cm on the femur.


Did you met someone who is 100% recovered?

I've met with 13 patients either in person or over skype.

All said they are happy, but the #1 complaint concerning recovery was decreased ability to do extreme sports. Some examples were volleyball, bmx, skateboarding, and mountain bike racing. Not that they couldn't do these things, but that their abilities were diminished (sometimes greatly)

Both on this forum and with the in real life patients, I've heard the "football" analogy quite a bit. They likened it to a football player that played at a good level, gets injured, and then can still play post injury, but not at their previous level/ability. So not sitting on the bench, but less valuable of a player. (no one brought up dancing, and I didn't ask)

I personally would call that 100% recovered from injury, but NOT 100% recovered as if the injury never happened. Make sense?

I don't believe it is possible to be 100% as if LL never happened. I've broke an arm, finger, thumb, big toe, pinky toe, and carpal bone in my hand, and even they are not 100% as if it never happened. (aches, sensitive to cold)

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Quote from: bar on July 01, 2016, 02:52:11 PMHi all, thank you for the answers! You are amazing.

I consult with a doctor, no one promise that I will be 100% back in shape, even only with 3cm on the femur.


Did you met someone who is 100% recovered?

Who did you consult with?

Couldn't be a US doctor, the one's I have spoken with promise 100% recovery, which my local orthopedic surgeon (he does not do LL), said was an outright lie.

Edit for clarity: Rorzbruch did not promise me 100% recovery

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Some people have ok recoveries, but a large % do not

3 cm, hard to say, but breaking both legs for 3 cm seems extreme. Could get as much with  lifts and  boots.

Quote from: westercoasten on July 01, 2016, 03:06:51 PMDo you include that amount of cm in the accident or just the breaking of bones? Cause the lengthening is take longer time than in a accident. But yes it is a high risk, but if its not sure u be 100 % at 3 cm could you be that at just 1,5 cm or is it impossible to regin 100 % at any cm?

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No more sports for any LL patient I've met or known about. Some of them walk and some of them are crippled.

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Quote from: LLuser1 on July 01, 2016, 10:01:29 PMNo more sports for any LL patient I've met or known about. Some of them walk and some of them are crippled.

Which doctors did these patients go to?

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Quote from: Penguinn on July 01, 2016, 10:05:46 PMWhich doctors did these patients go to?

Russian doctors, Betz, Monegal, Sarin, among others.

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LLUser1, what are your thoughts about Dr Salameh & Schmidt (Frankfurt)?

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Quote from: LLuser1 on July 01, 2016, 10:01:29 PMNo more sports for any LL patient I've met or known about. Some of them walk and some of them are crippled.

And i personally know someone who had right leg deformation and was wearing ilizarov frames almost whole childhood and now he plays volleyball like nothing happened.

Problem is nobody will tell you exactly how much you will recover there is just too many factors.

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Since you are a healthy adult, chances are that you will get out of it 80-90% from what you used to athletically (I believe that functionally 100% is not far fetched at all if you take into account "controlable" factors such as which surgeon and amount lengthened).

 You just need to know what's more important to you... Being athletic and your current height, or being less athletic (let's say less explosivness, less power, less endurence whie running) but taller and 100% functional.