I have to say that my journey was very smooth. Clicking for me was the whole time pretty much good without much pain. I had just 1 or 2 days where it hurt a lot. But I also have to tell you that some people have more pain when clicking especially when your bones heal fast. I don’t know if there is a way to determine if clicking will hurt but I would say it’s a thing you have to find out. But there are ways to get past that… I have 2 videos on my TikTok page where I do it. Clicking takes me now (3 months after surgery) around 3 minutes. In the beginning it took longer around 20min in total.
Pain after surgery wasn’t a big of a deal. But I have to say I have good pain tolerance and it was my first surgery. Also you get good pain killers. After surgery I did take oxycodon for a few days then I switched to tilidin. It was still good. Later on I also reduced the dosage of tilidin. And if you have pain, there is always stronger medication… but it depends a lot on your body and how it reacts to it. During lengthening I had somephases that hurt more. It was when I was still finding the rhythm for my medication. For me during the day everything was fine, but at night it started to hurt. So delayed my medication to get more coverage at night. Also I took my tilidin right before sleeping because it makes you sleepy so it’s win win haha. After around 6cm nerve pain started for me. I got medication for that, so now I don’t have that right now.
I am not sure how many cm I should do actually. My goal at the beginning was 12cm but I am scared of the long term problems. So I probably will stop at 10cm.
thanks so much for outlining your experience. i appreciate it.
i will be aiming for 8cm on the femur
The Betz nail is an outdate piece of limb lengthening technology. Precice is the most state of the art. I would go for the Betz nail only if you absolutely need to be walking as fast as possible (eg. your job requires it) and Precice Max isn't an option.
Quote from: GrowGrow123 on November 13, 2024, 10:19:38 PMThe Betz nail is an outdate piece of limb lengthening technology. Precice is the most state of the art. I would go for the Betz nail only if you absolutely need to be walking as fast as possible (eg. your job requires it) and Precice Max isn't an option.
Why do you think it is outdated I think the big benefit is the full weight nail
What a hilarious thread. Do not take advice from a guy that is saying physical therapy is unnecessary as you're undergoing limb lengthening surgery. I'm not shooting down the betz here, but when the muscles stretch, they need to be monitored.
Hey I think Mr- Becker changed that a lot I have for example a pre stretching protocol which I should do 6-8 weeks before after that there is a daily stretching of 3h/day required they have also now a stretching app for that
I wasn't referring to Betz Becker, my response was aimed towards the user in the thread recommending to do it, go home the next week, go to to normal life, choose your own height goal without the doctor's input, take some pain killers.....
Sounds like someone advertising claims LL institute in Turkey almost. A home regiment or going to a physical therapist that's not experienced in LL is also insufficient. The more you skimp during distraction & recovery with highly trained people, the higher the risk for short/long term complications. If you're in distraction, you're still undergoing an operation and you should be closely monitored.
The nail is okay, but there are better options. The biggest downfall of the Betzbone and G-Nail are that there is no way to go backwards, which can result in unintentional distraction and non-union, which happened to another user as seen here:
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=3560.0
There is a MASSIVE market for weight bearing nails and as much as they want to sell it like it's some unique amazing design....Betz and G-Nail aren't crazy ingenious. They sacrifice safety, accuracy and success features that Precise 2 has in exchange for freeing up internal space for more weight bearing support. There's a reason why those nails aren't offered anywhere else and Giotkis even offers tons of options other than the G-Nail. If Turkish surgeons offered Betz the same $ they pay nuvasive for precise 2, betz would 100% sell it to them. But precise is safer, even the butchers of Turkey recognize that, so nobody buys the betz. As long as it's been around and other surgeons still opt to use the Precise 2.2, says a lot.
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