Giotikas - surgery done

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Glad to hear! And i agree with Body Buldier. Be safe

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It’s been almost 6 months since I had surgery and I strengthened my belief that 6cm is the absolute limit if you want to keep your health and athletic ability. You seems to be in good hands. Keep it up!

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Quote from: zakika on October 07, 2018, 11:34:10 AMYes, I think the same. Thank for God my flexibility seems quite ok so far, but I know over 5 cm it is always tougher. One more thing, my callus seems to be continuous (it looked quite good for the whole period), and the alignment was also good on the last checkup according to Dr Giotikas, so things seem to be solid now. Thanks!
I would recommend to stop now when everything is ok. 5 cm on tibia is ok , then you can do easily 6 cm on femur and 11 cm will be a massive gain. Always keep in mind that your legs will have to work until you die, now youre young and strong but when you are in your 60s thing might look different. Pushing them too hard to see when they start struggling might bring negative effects in the future.

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Quote from: doomsday on October 07, 2018, 10:40:43 PMI would recommend to stop now when everything is ok. 5 cm on tibia is ok , then you can do easily 6 cm on femur and 11 cm will be a massive gain. Always keep in mind that your legs will have to work until you die, now youre young and strong but when you are in your 60s thing might look different. Pushing them too hard to see when they start struggling might bring negative effects in the future.

Isn't LL itself a bad idea because your legs have to work until you die? If were him I would have done just 6-7cm on tibia and not done an extra LL altogether.

@doomsday you did 6 segments if I recall right. Do you feel recovered? Do you regret it? It did solve your problems?

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Thanks, I will play safe.

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Thanks ketchum, what is your experience regarding activity, stretching so far? I feel like having some (not to be close to the limit tbh) reserve in my soft tissues, so will go on.

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Hi doomsday, thank you for your warning, I -in general - think safe, it is the reason, that i don't say anything for 100%, because it is not me, who tells the endpoint to this journey, but my body. Now I feel like pushing a bit more to be a reasonable decision (my main concern is, how my ankles will handle the additional weight, but with femur-Stryde the plus weight comes up too), plus I'm not sure yet when to have Stryde, as my quadriceps are atrophied, the flexibility has to be improved in lower limb etc. 

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Hotty, I keep any options alive, the one you mentioned is one of them, however 7 cm for tibia seems over a rational limit, so we'll see..

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Hi, can I ask what your flexibility was like pre op, could you touch your toes? And what is your flexibility like now?

Many thanks

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I could touch my toes, gut only after some stretching before the op, now I'm working on to avoid any ballerina, even temporarily, however after 5,5-6 cm I'll have for sure, which I have to work off with physio.