Has anyone got any positive stories of doing 6.5cm tibia

Edit Post

Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on June 19, 2023, 05:43:23 AMRemove the apostrophe and the t.  That's what he meant.

Exactly. My bad.

Edit Post

Quote from: hippo60 on June 19, 2023, 12:30:31 PMOh I see. But buddy, you didn't shower for a couple of months because of infection risk. I really don't understand what's the argument for LON over internal other than money.

You unfortunately experienced a really bad doctor who might match that description, but that's definitely not true for all doctors. And guess what happened over the last decade? Technology improved, and other than you - people moved on.

Why don't you become a farmer? People have been doing it for thousands of years. They seemed pretty happy.

Technology in LL, except from stryde that is discontinued, hasn't improved in the last ten years almost at all.
Especially with the crap internal albizzia mechanic nails (gnail and betzbone) that most LLers, at keast here, use for femur LL.
The only revolution in LL was stryde because it was a full weight bearing magnetic nail which was maybe the best we can get for doing LL. But no, albizzias are no way an improvement and neither internal LL with these obsolete nails is any improvement compared to the far safer, less painful and cheaper tsf/hexapod frames for tibias.

Edit Post

Quote from: hippo60 on June 19, 2023, 12:30:31 PMI really don't understand what's the argument for LON over internal other than money.

There isn't one.

Edit Post

Quote from: Body Builder on June 18, 2023, 11:17:17 PMI can't do anything very well except from running as fast as before and for the same distances and jump as high.
I could still train to become better in these thimgs too (not.like LL though) but I don't want to stress my knees and ankles and legs in general so I just continue my everyday life normally without things that I woiuldnt do much even without LL.
I cam walk normally for long distances and of course be steady enough to work out as much as I did before LL.

Everyone who says, even doctors, that 6-6.5 cm on tibias will ruin you are either lying or dont know s**t.
Always the less the better of course but in no way 6-6.5cm on tibias would ruin you more than 8cm on femurs.
But doctors nowadays are more merchants than real doctors and want to earn huge amount of money by doing internal femurs which are much easier for them than external tibias which is safer and by far less expensive. But doctors can't earn much money with it amd should be really experienced to do it and thats why they prefer to tell bs to their patients about the risks of tibias and how superior are internal femurs, thats why the vast majority of people here are doing femurs these days while 10+ years before most of us did external tibias and had the same results with less than half the money.
That's good bodybuilder, and I hate how most people say it's not safe when they haven't even experienced the surgery before, I respect your opinion more. I would do 7cm tibia but I'm afraid that Parihar has limit of 6-6.5cm lengthening. But I'm just planning of doing 1 surgery to get 5'11 and be done and hopefully I'll be good, I'll safe my femurs for maybe when stryde comes out again. Have you done femurs as well?


So go for external tibias and listen to your body. Up to 6cm are relatively safe for most people, but if your body adapts well you could reach even 6.5cm without much risks. After than that it is better to stop.

Edit Post

Quote from: Body Builder on June 17, 2023, 01:25:28 PMThese nowadays "safe limits" of 5cm for tibias are plain bs and most doctors who insist on them are to push their patients to give double or triple the money to do internal femurs which is a much more invasive and risky procedure compared to external tibias.
And in no way 8cm on femurs are easier or safer than 6.5cm on tibias. The biomechanics will have the same differences after so there is no reason for 8cm on femurs to be safer than 6.5cm on tibias.
Of course some people may not handle this lengthening on tibias due to equinus problem but that you will see it only during kengthening. Most people can handle 6-6.5cm on tibias without any major equinus issue.

I did 6.6 cm on tibias with LON method. I agree with @Body Builder.

Edit Post

How's your active life and recovery, did everything go smooth? I'm 174cm really wanna hit to be 180.5, and possibly be done with LL, are you content with LL or are you planning to do another surgery?

Edit Post

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=83916.0