Hello, I have had a bad right leg since I was a teenager but now it is time to deal with it.
How does lengthening and straightening a tibia affect your mobility long term? Are you able to run and exercise afterwards?
Also, is the ilizarov scientific centre a good place to get this fixed? How do people manage to stay there for 3 months?
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Also, what does it mean if there is a big gap running sideways across the tibia but x rays do not show a fracture??
Hello, I am against doing it locally for personal reasons. I have been told that the clinic in Kurgan specialises in this and have a lot of experience, only problem is the 3 months. Because I have lived and done sports/gym with 1 bad leg I have ended up with a lot of injuries over time, labral tear on the OPPOSITE hip, neck, shoulder, arm, tmj all on the side of the bad leg too. I only wish someone had told me about this before because now I will need more than 1 surgery to sort things out
Thanks for those!
Just a quick question, has anyone torn a labrum before from living with 2 completely different legs for a long time? One good leg, the other painful and slightly shorter
Hello,
I do not live in the US or have any insurance, I have to just go out and deal with this myself
I have been told that the ilizarov centre in Kurgan is good but has anyone here been there with good long term outcomes from this website? I dont need much lengthening so there shouldnt be much problem for me or is that not how it works?? Does having a leg in bad condition before this surgery give you a worse chance of success and recovery?
Thank you
Quote from: Troma on July 30, 2018, 05:24:51 AMI would not recommend Kurgan but thats just because they do a lot of weird stuff most other doctors dont. Like 2 cuts in the bones and ankle rings. Go to kulesh or solomin or parihar for affordability and good outcome. Birkholtz or gotkias I think thats how its spelled. Search for androids cross lengthening in russia thread. His first post has all the good and affordable doctors. You can get what you need done cheap and safe. Any doctor will help you because you have a medical need.
Hello, I have yet to contact Dr Solomin, this is his email right? [email protected]. Every ilizarov doctor have said they want to do the surgery for me but most of them want to include my left leg too, that's not a problem for me like my right but the ilizarov scientific centre has been the most helpful and speak/type in English very well. Are they really not any good? Even here in the UK someone in the NHS told me they are good
Update: i tried contacting Dr Solomin but he is out of the office for another week, does he work with someone else? I hear the name Kulesh, does he deal with non cosmetic problems and whats his email please?
Are there any good affordable ilizarov doctors in Germany, I've had something done in Germany before with good results so would be happy to go there again, especially not having to deal with visas
Thank you
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Can someone please direct me to ilizarov specialists in Germany?
I have contacted a couple in Italy, one of them being Maurizio Catagni who told me 15k euros to deal with my right leg, 18k if I do both. Is this not a strange price? Also, why is everyone so eager to put another frame on my left leg like this surgery is not a big deal with 100% success rate and zero complications?
I take it there are no ilizarov specialists in Germany then?
Quote from: myloginacc on August 03, 2018, 03:39:08 PMThe Kurgan center is very experienced.
The problem is that the doctors listed here also do cosmetic limb lengthening. Lengthening your legs for stature and aesthetic results. Although a lot of them may very well have a lot more experience than ones who refuse to do lengthening on cosmetic grounds, their practice is considered unethical by a huge chunk of the body of orthopedic surgeons. That's why you're getting offers to do the other leg when you contact the doctors listed here.
If you have a medical need, I'll have to repeat myself: try treatment with the NHS (i.e. locally - I'm guessing you're from the UK). Unicorn has a lot of info on the NHS and limb lengthening in her thread.
Click and read from here for the information.
If the NHS is not an option, or you're from somewhere else, I'd again consult a local orthopedic surgeon who has worked with limb deformity and reconstruction in the past for orientation.
If all that fails, go get it done in Kurgan. They're certainly more ethical than all doctors listed here, and plus they have to carry the legacy of Dr. Ilizarov's name under their belt. However, they may not use the most modern, best devices in current distraction osteogenesis science, or offer the best possible hospital care.
Thank you for this!
Looks like I have to go to kurgan for 3 months then. I have contacted Dr Solomin recently, I take it he does this for cosmetic purposes so I should no longer consider him?
As for the NHS, they could have done something when I was young but I was made to live with this which has messed everything up and now my left leg has also paid the price with labral tear and more. They didn't even have the decency to tell me about the ilizarov device so i could have gone privately until I found out it myself recently. I will never deal with them again. A private doctor even said I may have hip dysplasia on my right hip but I have never been diagnosed with that by the NHS.
If it was up to me the NHS would be shut down and only available to children or olderly.
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