Everyone who wants to do LL, click on this thread.

I always try to help people out on here, and I think I have thought of a new safety precaution for you all to go through.

If you want to if your bone is healthy enough to go through such an operation and consolidate at a very good rate, you should get a bone blood/urine test done to check your bone turnover rate.


-The Bone Marker test is used to detect and measure the presence of certain biochemicals in blood and/or urine. This helps determine if there is either an excess of bone formation, or an excess of bone destruction (called resorption)
-This information helps predict the risk of bone fracture, diagnose conditions like osteoporosis, help make a treatment decision, and also serve as a baseline to measure the effectiveness of a future treatment
-The human bone is in a constant state of remodeling, even after the body growth stops. New bone is continuously being formed, while old bone continuously being absorbed in the body. This process is termed as ‘bone turnover’
-Formation of new bone is carried out by specialized bone cells called osteoblasts. The absorption of old bone occurs with the help of another special type of bone cells called osteoclasts. This ‘bone turnover’ is important for the normal bone health and helps in repair and response to stress (such as fractures)

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v87n2/0001-3765-aabc-201520150008.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3143987/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20190300

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000201049


@TIBIKE200,
After doing more research, you are correct in that these tests can not exactly tell you how your consolidation will be after surgery.
However it is important to do these tests to see if your bones are indeed healthy enough for this procedure. Some have osteoporosis and do not even know they have it. It does not cause pain in all cases. Furthermore, these tests also check your mineral/vitamin levels such as Vitamin D. This is important to see if your bones are getting all the vitamins and minerals it needs to consolidate after surgery.

Furthermore, I have posted some studies which show that this exact test has the possibility to tell you how your consolidation will go early in your healing period. It can tell you if you are more susceptible to a nonunion depending on the levels of some enzymes VERY EARLY in the process.

bump for anyone considering LL, these are tests you might want to consider!

these tests can show if your bones are healthy enough for the surgery and consolidation. + risk of fracture of the partially-consolidated bone post surgery depending on bone mineral density and strength

i have linked some studies for you to read if interested