G-Nail on femurs in Greece on Aug24th. Let's do this!!!

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No. Not at the moment at least.
There are women doing precice now (femur) and I heard of a lot of older patients (female) but they all seemed to have done precice.

Not sure if anybody else can comment further.

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Quote from: OzBoy39 on October 02, 2022, 04:17:44 AMNo. Not at the moment at least.
There are women doing precice now (femur) and I heard of a lot of older patients (female) but they all seemed to have done precice.

Not sure if anybody else can comment further.

Is there how many women compared to men? Still so hard to understand why women would do this procedure 

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Quote from: OzBoy39 on October 02, 2022, 04:17:44 AMNo. Not at the moment at least.
There are women doing precice now (femur) and I heard of a lot of older patients (female) but they all seemed to have done precice.

Not sure if anybody else can comment further.

How old are the women?

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Yeah i am with you. Don't really understand why, but apparently they somehow feel like we do.

Anyway, right now there's 1 girl here at Novotel doing precice.
Just before I arrived another one went home who was also doing precice

This in comparison to current 8 or 9 male patients (additional 2 have leftt in my first and second week here).

A rough ratio of 10 to 1 male to female.

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I think it's because Gnail is thicker (11mm) and won't suit petite peoples bones.

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Quote from: Limbfan2020 on October 02, 2022, 11:56:17 AMHow old are the women?

Both in their early 30s

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Quote from: ten on October 02, 2022, 02:35:53 PMI think it's because Gnail is thicker (11mm) and won't suit petite peoples bones.

That can definitely be a cause for the G-nail but my gut feel is simply that this very rough 10% ratio represent the demand for LL of men and women. It sounds about right (actually if I had to pick I'd say this ratio should be close to 2 or 3%) but the math is done on numbers who aren't statistically representative.

If I remember I'll ask this question to the Doc next time around. I'm sure he'll have more robust numbers

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Quote from: OzBoy39 on October 02, 2022, 03:41:26 PMThat can definitely be a cause for the G-nail but my gut feel is simply that this very rough 10% ratio represent the demand for LL of men and women. It sounds about right (actually if I had to pick I'd say this ratio should be close to 2 or 3%) but the math is done on numbers who aren't statistically representative.

If I remember I'll ask this question to the Doc next time around. I'm sure he'll have more robust numbers

Thanks! I am curious to know if he has had to disqualify people from using the GNail because they were too petite and how rare this is.

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Hi Ozboy39, did you ask Dr G about quad lengthening?

I plans to do femirs first to get max length. So I don't want to do the 2 weeks option.

Am I able to do tibia after 4 months after femur surgery? I just don't want to recover fully and then break my legs again

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Quote from: Mini0510 on October 04, 2022, 09:15:36 AMHi Ozboy39, did you ask Dr G about quad lengthening?

I plans to do femirs first to get max length. So I don't want to do the 2 weeks option.

Am I able to do tibia after 4 months after femur surgery? I just don't want to recover fully and then break my legs again

Hi Mini0510,
Have I missed some message from you? Was I suppose to ask the Dr.  about the quadrilateral?

Anyway, as far as I know, if you don't do the two surgeries 2 or 3 weeks apart, then the best option is to actually wait until you've completely consolidated and healed before doing the other segment. Which usually takes approximately 1 year or so.

4 months post op you probably are just starting consolidation which requires you to walk and walk and walk more to grow a strong bone. If you go under surgery again you'll screw up this process so I believe that that's not a good option.

If you wanna be sure, just book a free 15 mins consultation with Giotikas or any other doctor. I think I've seen Dr Assayag commenting in some other thread these days. He could provide definitely a better answer than myself.
Cheers