Quote from: limewalk on March 30, 2020, 02:58:31 PMThat doesn't sound right Medium. Are you saying very tall people have problems "aiming" their feet on stairs correctly? Michael Jordan would have had this problem?
It could be related to the body healing completely I suppose.
Its all about biomechanics.
Quote from: limewalk on March 30, 2020, 02:58:31 PMThat doesn't sound right Medium. Are you saying very tall people have problems "aiming" their feet on stairs correctly? Michael Jordan would have had this problem?
They have more of a problem than short people do. The farther you have to reach, the harder it is to aim, after all. A shorter guy with the same physical gifts as MJ would be better than him at dealing with obstacles around his feet. Lots of falling and ankle rolling/spraining happens in the NBA.
Also, naturally tall people have the advantage of their entire body being bigger and being able to get used to it as they grew throughout childhood, rather than just the tibias getting stretched out later in life as a tibial LL patient does.
Great discussion, thanks a lot everyone. I can see why going downstairs is one of the last hurdles for tibia lengthening.
For those that had done tibia first and then femur (if anyone here), after conquering going downstairs w/ tibia lengthening, was it easier/harder to do after femur lengthening? Or does lengthening the femur have no / less impact on going downstairs.
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