Dr. Monegal / Spain / Bilateral Femurs / Fitbone / August 25, 2015

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oh right i understand why people do internal femurs first now, because it is faster, but is it worth triple the price just to be done 4 months quicker than external tibia?

i kind of thought people did internal femur as 2nd surgery until now.

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Not just because it is faster, also less discomfort and pain, less risk of infection, and less scarring, it is simply less barbaric...as Dr.Guichet would say, "why by a horse when you can by a Ferrari"

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lol i'd hardly say that the end result is exactly the same, one its just 3x the price.

the pain level is the same for internal femur vs external tibia i believe, scar removal surgery is cheap anyway.

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Congrats man, I'll be surely checking you in regularly for updates as I'm planning to do the exact same thing!

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Quote from: microman on September 17, 2015, 04:54:42 PMoh right i understand why people do internal femurs first now, because it is faster, but is it worth triple the price just to be done 4 months quicker than external tibia?

i kind of thought people did internal femur as 2nd surgery until now.
It's more than just the higher recovery speed but also the better long term recovery. Most people who get their femurs done seem to do much better than the ones who do their tibiae. Whereas a lot of tibia patiens suffer from this surgery much longer.
Another advantage of the internal femur method is, that you can lengthen a greater amount, If I increaed my femur bones by 15% it would be around 7cm's which is a very decent height increase.
If I wanted to lengthen my tibias by 7 cm's, the increase would be much greater than just 15% and therefore bear higher risks.

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A picture says a thousand words, and a video has an encyclopedia's worth of information within.  You just answered a ton of questions with that demonstration.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us bro!  Keep us posted with your progress.

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thanks for the videos and stuff! how are you, how is your pain level when you 1) relax 2) PT 3)sleep 4)use the walker to stand up?