How useful is stretching?

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Will stretching religiously everyday for years until my surgery help me gain 10 cm on femurs and 6 on tibias?

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You shouldnt need to stretch for years before surgery, a few months daily should suffice. and i dont think being more flexible will guarantee you more height gain. Your body goes as far as it goes and youll know when you get there.

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My main concern is not being able to achieve my lengthening goal due to muscle/ligament tightness. So I want to exhaust all efforts to make sure I can do that.

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Do what you gotta do, if your surgeon tells you to push hard for flexibility do that. You shouldnt have to much of a problem reaching the height you want assuming your already a decent height going into it. If i were you id start atrophying my legs if you havent already, 10cm is a pre decent haul and it will be ten times more painful if you dont focus on cutting that excess muscle down.

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How do you recommend I go about atrophying my leg muscles?

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Stop doing weight lifting exercises with them. If you want to slim down do some cardio ontop of your stretches. And stop consuming as much calories as you do rn.  Atrophying only applies to people who were already working out there legs beforehand and have some muscle already there. So if your one of those people just prioritize losing the gains

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10 cm on femurs isn't safe for anyone unless your stárting height is like 190 cm before surgery. The maximum safety standard is 8 cm on femurs and in order to hit this maximum target, you usually will have to have a decent starting height like AT LEAST above 5'5 / 165 cm and be very flexable before surgery. Most people start to have problems after 4-5 cm on tibias, It's pretty much the same with tibias like described earlier.

In generel it's better not to push too far and be healthy, than risking your functionality for a minimum gain of like 1-2 cm more. This isn't even noticeable in the real world, and good posture will give this little boost anyways.

What is your starting height, if you don't mind me asking?

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Quote from: DanishViking on August 16, 2023, 05:22:17 PM10 cm on femurs isn't safe for anyone unless your stárting height is like 190 cm before surgery. The maximum safety standard is 8 cm on femurs and in order to hit this maximum target, you usually will have to have a decent starting height like AT LEAST above 5'5 / 165 cm and be very flexable before surgery. Most people start to have problems after 4-5 cm on tibias, It's pretty much the same with tibias like described earlier.

In generel it's better not to push too far and be healthy, than risking your functionality for a minimum gain of like 1-2 cm more. This isn't even noticeable in the real world, and good posture will give this little boost anyways.

What is your starting height, if you don't mind me asking?

His height is in his profile, its the same as yours

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I plan to have surgery at the beginning of March. Currently I stretch 3 times a week for 4 series (rounds) and about 5-6 exercises. If you want to achieve that goal, I recommend you not underestimate flexibility, for a reason physiotherapy is the key to success in LL

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It's fun thinking about 16-20cm and the height you can possibly gain when you havent even had the surgery yet. Once your bones are broken and you cant walk, your mindset will be totally different. Stop living in a fairy tale land and be realistic about what is safely possible with this operation.
8cm femur + 6 cm tibia is basically the max, and that is a brutal surgery and year long recovery.
Bang for your buck is 8cm femur and get out - and even that is going to be the most depressing 8 months of your life. And remember, it's not linear in terms of how hard it is. It gets exponentially harder. 0-4 cm is easy on femur, then harder, and harder. A lot of people cant take it past 6 cm on femur and calls it a quits.