Fitbone Stage Right Tibia Lenghtening (Dr. Monegal), Barcelona, Spain

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Thank you Yellow Spike. You been supportive since the beginning. I need positive people like you around especially in dire moment like this.

I am sure i will come out ok. I am seeing the best of the best. Just has to go through all this unnecessary correction if i was smart to pick right doctor from the getko.

I thought i am only doing one leg, 5cm, internal lenghtening, in europe, what could go wrong? so wrong!

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Super Patella: This is bull  whatever monegal is trying to sell super patella for nail insertion. All the doctor I see in US did not even mentioned a thing. Dr. R was oh super patella and that was it. It could be this approach the nail was not inserted correctly causing provactum on my tibia bone. With super patella nail is introduced above from the knee and the angle of insertion is different than doing directly through knee. I cannot say 100% that is the issue. But this not any innovation or supreme methodology. Be aware of that!

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Hi Cooper

I am sorry to hear you suffering from the wrong choice.  He is indeed very disappointing and untrusty.
What a disaster to you.... However, you are a brave and strong man.  You can go through this and achieve your goal, although there has been unnecessary misfortune.   
Wish you the best of luck for the rest of your ll journey!!

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Quote from: Ghostfish on March 26, 2016, 08:13:52 AMHi Cooper

I am sorry to hear you suffering from the wrong choice.  He is indeed very disappointing and untrusty.
What a disaster to you.... However, you are a brave and strong man.  You can go through this and achieve your goal, although there has been unnecessary misfortune.   
Wish you the best of luck for the rest of your ll journey!!

Thank you for kind words.

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I had the supra patellar insertion

it's a known technique, but not as common

I got it because I thought it would avert knee pain

I  can say that kneeling on the  knee hurts. This is common though with any nailing while the rod is in.  The only reason though for getting the supra patellar was to avoid this, so in that sense, i would say there's no reason to get supra patellar.

I also have  a bit of irritation/pain in the interior of my knee/leg, though hoping that's from a screw ,since that can be removed.  It is quite annoying


Supra patellar is not unknown, but I'm guessing there's a reason why most Dr's do not perform the surgery in this manner

My opinion: Get the  nailing  done by   regular insertion. Supra patellar's only  supposed benefit is to avoid the knee pain  that occurs with regular nailing, and in my case,  supra patellar  was a  failure in this regard.

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I can't find the whole study online but here is the abstract of the intra-articular risks of suprapatellar nailing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23550286.
Here is a quote from the study:
"Suprapatellar nailing is associated with a risk of injury to anterior knee structures comparable to other nailing techniques. "

I also saw a presentation few years ago that argued that suprapatellar nailing does not avoid the risk of anterior knee pain, unfortunately I can't seem to find it.

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Here is another study that concludes no difference in knee pain between suprapatellar and infrapatellar nailing approach http://upoj.org/wp-content/uploads/v24/09_Courtney.pdf

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Hi Cooper,

sorry to hear your story bro, But isn't Monegal certified by WITTENSTEIN for fitbone use. I thought they overlook his practice. Can you contact/complain to them about Monegal?

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Quote from: blahblah on March 27, 2016, 06:02:04 AMHi Cooper,

sorry to hear your story bro, But isn't Monegal certified by WITTENSTEIN for fitbone use. I thought they overlook his practice. Can you contact/complain to them about Monegal?

blah

That is what I thought. Trained by fitbone manufacturer. But that may not mean anything.  If the case is in US easy to file press charge for lying, dishonest and unethical.  but in Spain I do not know. And culture is different as I mentioned before per Spanish friend everyone lies in Spain. Do not know how much of that is true.

I am focusing on my recovery. In coming days I hope some more patient come forward and share experience. May be cumulatively we can file class action law suit.

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Cooper 

Can you show x ray?   I chat a chinese guy too from china and he is ok