Femur or Tibia

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Hello everyone

I'm 172/3cm tall and wanted to ask quickly if i should have the LL done on my femur or tibia proportion wise. The goal would be to gain 3-4cm or 5cm at max.

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My tibia is ~36cm and my femur ~38cm.

I tried to uplad an image but it won't let me.

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Quote from: ilovescience on January 23, 2022, 05:47:54 PMHave you measured how long your femur/ tibia are? You have good height, that almost within the average height of American.

Yes I know, which is why I don't wanna go go over 5cm, with an increase of 4 i would already be 176cm and since I mainly wear sneakers with thick soles that would give me an extra 2-3cm . So almost 180cm with shoes with which I would be more than happy.

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Quote from: ReadRothbard on January 24, 2022, 09:12:34 PMThere’s some videos on YouTube about how to properly measure tibias and femurs:




Many thanks for the video, I measured again and I was quite off. The median for my tibia is 41cm and the median for my femur is 42cm. It's still not perfectly accurate but better than my last.

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Many thanks for all the feedback!

After reading through the replies, the forum and the internet I I would go with tibia, even if the healing process would take longer. After some input I do still need to decide if I'll go through with it since it's not a cheap and short procedure especially for such an arguably small increase in height. I'll definitely dig a bit deeper in to this!