Diary: 1" LLD Femur - Stryde - September 2019

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Looking great bgreene! that light jogging looked very normal as well as your walking gait. hope you continue to make great improvements.

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Perfect !
Keep training, stretching and do squat with gym ball on wall.

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Wow you look great!! bgreeneee!!  Looks like better than me before my surgery.
Enjoy your life! wish you the best and happiness!!

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Hi all-
Good news on my front. I've definitely pushed through a plateau, still more to go but these past couple of weeks my muscles are just feeling better. I am starting to incorporate jogging into my routine. For the first time I actually started working on some easy sprints. I'm not as young as some of you here lol...I was exactly an olympic sprinter before!  Here's a short youtube of my progress.

Also, I finally got an x-ray, first one since Feb since the covid thing has made access to care much more difficult. Doc says bone is fully healed, says to schedule the nail removal in September. I'll post an xray at some point...I actually haven't even seen it yet.

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This is really impressive. You’re doing excellent judging by these videos.

I’m curious about how well you think someone could recover from an 8cm lengthening on both femurs.

Would you recommend doing it based on your experience and recovery?

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Hi k1erz--8 cm is a tougher journey than mine for sure since I only did ~2.7cm. There's others on here who are going to be more qualified to advise you on that. I'm getting closer and closer to getting back to where I was but am not there yet. I'd say 80% and feel like I'm still making forward progress. I still hope to get to 100%. Good luck on your decision and journey!

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It's been about 9 months since the end of my distraction (finished growth Oct 2019). Here's the latest xray from about a week ago. Doctor says bone is good to go, I'll be scheduling rod removal in probably October.

https://imgur.com/gallery/u4ZxXoT

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Quote from: bgreeneee on July 21, 2020, 04:18:17 PMIt's been about 9 months since the end of my distraction (finished growth Oct 2019). Here's the latest xray from about a week ago. Doctor says bone is good to go, I'll be scheduling rod removal in probably October.

https://imgur.com/gallery/u4ZxXoT

That’s awesome.  Please keep us posted. 

Thank you for referring me to Dr. F.

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https://imgur.com/rAHWlha

My xray 10 months of LLD correction of 9 mm with solid nail

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Hi folks--I'll be getting my rod out on 10/5. It's been just over a year since my surgery. No regrets!