Femurs stryde with Giotikas (July 2020)

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I'm sorry m7liam, but I can't agree with what your doctor is saying ... Stryde nail was designed to weight bare and a lot of people's nails didn't bend, mine included, and we walked significantly and did PT during distraction. I noticed your nails being a bit bent since early on your journey I don't think you were walking a lot to make the nail bend during that time ... I'd say that's just Doctor incompetence ... I don't know I hope he's right and it won't be an issue and won't affect you and your quality of life, but I'd personally be pissed if I paid that much money to have my legs turn out bent/ crooked.

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I said they were bent since more than a month.
The nail was clearly blocked because it’s way too bent, there’s no a straight space for the internal magnet to slide in.
That’s The only Reason why it’s not distracting.
I’m trying to spread this message for everyone, Stryde is not supposed to allow you to walk unaided during distraction. It’s way too risky for the most.
Movie, you had The 11,5mm nail if I remember well, you have been lucky and have had more freedom compared to most of the <1,70 guys, Who have The 10mm one.
Almost every XR I’ve seen of people walking during distraction shows that the nail is at least slightly bent.
For the m7liam situation, now I think the best possibility is to accept this leg discrepancy or, if he preferes to solve this problem, go under another surgery to fix the problem with an orthopedic nail. I don’t think the bending is going to be worse than now, you already have a good amount of bone, but most of the damage has already be done.

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Thanks guys. I agree it is a bit annoying but will check how the healing goes.

If my walking or life is any less than perfect as a result, I’ll look to get it fixed. At the moment, I can’t really see how having slightly bent femur bones will affect my quality of life (remember, it’s not like my legs themselves are bent).

Dr G mentioned 1) the bone builds more on the area where the pressure is, so that will offset some of it and 2) the femurs are normally bent anyway (especially when looking from behind).

But yes, in hindsight probably would have gone with the 11.5mm. I didn’t realise it’d make difference cos I was 65kg pre surgery and probably under 60kg post surgery.

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its not like you can ask for a nail size of your choice. the doctor decides whats best and thats the best. too small is not good and too big is not good.

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The main problem in my opinion is not the bending in itself but the fact there's a discrepancy.
Most of the people in the world have a discrepancy of some mm in the legs, and that probably 10% have a discrepancy close to 1,5cm, maybe it's a shame that now there's this problem because there was the possibility to be almost perfectly symmetrical with this surgery.
The bending degrees in both legs are very similar, so it's not making the legs among them so different, even if it accentuates valgus knee, but it's up for the most to your original articulation (you could be normal, slightly varus, valgus etc before surgery)
Dr G 1) it's true but you seem to have a good bone growth  2) Idon't know what he means with this lol
Btw i hope you don't feel these problems so much and hope best recovery in these months with your new height

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Hi Tartar - what do you mean by discrepancy?

I did an x-ray 2 weeks ago (my final checkup) which showed that the gap was ~8cms each (to be precise, we measured ~7.8cms which could have been due to the bend) and he also did a measurement of the whole femur bone (so measuring from the knee to the hip) which showed they were the same length.

So I'm relatively confident the legs are the same length. I probably did lose 0.2cm's from the bend but they are the same length.

Cheers mate! Focused on walking properly now, I just want to go out and dance!!!

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I remember you lengthened the right femur much more than the left one and you never solved the “locked distraction”

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Oh no it was solved in the end haha. It was lengthening, just very slowly. I wrote a long post above.

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Hey m7!

I heard some people complain about the PT in Greece. What are your thoughts on common specific mistakes a patient can make in doing his therapy or choosing the PT?

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Quote from: SpeedDialer on December 04, 2020, 03:47:39 AMHey m7!

I heard some people complain about the PT in Greece. What are your thoughts on common specific mistakes a patient can make in doing his therapy or choosing the PT?

I think they changed the PT to a new location this year. I personally really liked the staff at the PT place (they were super friendly) and also it was a great socialising time because all the other patients were there doing it at the same time. I would honestly say it was the best part of my day given I didn't really like Athens all that much and so most of my time was either at PT or at home.

They also pushed you hard at PT which I thought was good. I tried out a few places in London when I was there but it was rubbish because the guys wouldn't use much force on you.