doing both femur and tibia

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Starting height 5'9. im considering doing 1.5 inches on femur and 1.5 inches on tibia. Im well aware it would be easier overall to just do 3 inches on femur, however proportions do play a role, so splitting it up 1.5 and 1.5 seems good. Any thoughts?

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Terrible idea, inducing trauma to both bones and in most cases 3 inches on femurs doesn't make you look disproportionate.

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OverrideYourGenetics did this with PALEY and apparently he still can't run without shin splits after 1 minute like 2 years post op. He also fell in love with his physical therapist and became and angry man and grammar nazi

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Why not doing 2 inches on femurs and call it a day?? 5'11 is a solid height. Do not mess with your tibias if you can avoid it tbh.

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the only people who think that's a good idea are people who haven't read enough patient stories and are not even serious about getting the surgery... just want to bring up a random topic on the forum

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If you have enough money and time, then that makes sense.  Otherwise, I wouldn’t do more than 5 cm per segment, and in your case it would be 180 cm, which is already good

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Quote from: Iron_Man on May 10, 2020, 11:11:59 AMIf you have enough money and time, then that makes sense.  Otherwise, I wouldn’t do more than 5 cm per segment, and in your case it would be 180 cm, which is already good

Most people can usually get away with 6-7cm on femurs, it's usually the people who go past 7cm (on femurs) that have a lot more difficulty.

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Quote from: FormerKidd on May 10, 2020, 06:11:15 PMMost people can usually get away with 6-7cm on femurs, it's usually the people who go past 7cm (on femurs) that have a lot more difficulty.

Is there a problem in 8 cm for femur?

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I know it sounds annoying as hell, but you should honestly do 2 inches in femur and then wait a good few years and do an inch or so in tibia. Tibia is the most horrible way to do this surgery, in fact should be a complete last option if you ask me.

The reason everyone is telling you absolutely not is because (and you sound like a newbie), you are uninformed or unaware of this amount of trauma. A man who did this surgery with paley (overrideyourgeenetics) completely fu**ed himself. he was 5'5 and wanted to do like either 2 inch and 2 inch or 3 and 2 and he ended up only becoming like 5'7 because he had to stop one of them. This procedure is one of the most incredibly difficult procedures you can perform on your body (talking about one segment [femurs at once]).... cross lengthening is a dangerous dangerous gamble.

I'm no doctor but i think you would need a double dosage of painkillers in order to assist the double amount of pain ( which wouldn't be given to you).... the body will not heal correctly / efficiently as it could. Do one surgery and get rid of some neurosis and then live that life for a while and then later down the line when u have more $$$ , finish up the other one ( thats my plan)

P>S::: When addressing proportions I have scaled my own legs and made cut outs of paper stick figures with my natural height vs different procedural lengths I could achieve. I have also read up on proprtions not only for sports but what is attractive. Having longer femurs to calves ratio is actually preferred. Calves are really only attractive if they are thick (which is a different much cheaper plastic surgery).


I know it'll be tough but in time you will do it anyway, throw this idea out. do 2.5 in femurs with Stryde. That is probably you're best bet for the present.

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Quote from: growthPlz on May 09, 2020, 09:53:47 PMStarting height 5'9. im considering doing 1.5 inches on femur and 1.5 inches on tibia. Im well aware it would be easier overall to just do 3 inches on femur, however proportions do play a role, so splitting it up 1.5 and 1.5 seems good. Any thoughts?

Don't do it. In my experience anyone obsessed with proportions does not need LL and if when they actually do it they won't be satisfied because they are obsessed with proportions (like the guy that recently did 10 or 11cm with Betz and now wants to shorten his leg...geez)