Femurs stryde with Giotikas (July 2020)

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Do you not have the ERC that only runs if it detects the nail? I'm not sure it that would prevent issues like this.

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Hello, There is a magnet inside the nail and you can use a magnet to locate the mark on top of your leg....Just a suggestion

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Quote from: BelowTheMean on October 29, 2020, 02:46:00 AMDo you not have the ERC that only runs if it detects the nail? I'm not sure it that would prevent issues like this.

No I dont, I have the old one that runs anytime. So that's a contributing factor

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Quote from: readyprecisestryde on October 29, 2020, 04:45:12 AMHello, There is a magnet inside the nail and you can use a magnet to locate the mark on top of your leg....Just a suggestion

Are you sure about this? How can I do this?

I thought the magnet was the machine and the nail is just magnetic. So it won't be able to tell which part of the nail can spin and which one can't?

I think what would be helpful is if I knew the exact position of the spinning part of the rod. Then I could measure it out using xrays.

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Just curious as I've not done femurs before. But from your x rays (mainly the first one), the top bone and the bottom bone doesn't look as straight as I thought it would be. Like the top half sort of points outwards while the bottom half points upwards.

Is that normal? I thought the top and bottom were suppose to point towards each other.

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Yep. I see what you mean.

The issue looks less obvious in my latest x-rays done 1.5 weeks ago (see below). Hence I'm not too concerned.

I'm not sure if normal.

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Ah.. you might wanna put a black circle in the middle there can see your privates

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The guy who trained me how to use the ERC machine @Paley institute told me he uses a magnet outside of the leg to locate the mark if he needs to locate the exact location of the mark. There must be a magnet inside the rod. You can also call Nuvasive directly and a rep will contact you. There was a phone number outside of my ERC machine for Nuvasive. I called that number once after hours and a Nuvasive rep called me back within couple of hours. Hope this helps

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Quote from: m7liam on October 29, 2020, 10:54:47 AMYep. I see what you mean.

The issue looks less obvious in my latest x-rays done 1.5 weeks ago (see below). Hence I'm not too concerned.

I'm not sure if normal.


Ok first of all the nails are bending.
I don't remember every old news you wrote here, what the size of the nail? (10 - 11,5 - 13)mm
The strangest thing is that your left femur is clearly less distracted compared to the right one, but the femoral head is definitely higher.
You should done an XR standing to check if you have any other discrepancy in the lower limb, remember that the most important thing is not how much your femur is long but how much is long all your lower limb.
The main problem right now is to be sure the nail is still working, because they are bending, unfortunately i can't say you what's the exact moment when it can fails in the distraction due to bending; i suggest you to contact your doctor about it.
After that the most important thing is to have a good view of all the femur, possibily of all the lower limb too.
Unfortunately the magnet is not seen in these pics, it's due to the machine used for these XR.

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This is a 10mm

Do you mean the bend at the top? I thought that was normal, I believe it was there from day 1. Or are you talking about the very slight bend in the nail.

The reason it doesn’t look symmetrical is cos I was doing this one lying down. So it was shot slightly angular