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Is 6.5 cm femur Lengthening a safe and realistic goal?

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Steffan
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Posted on Aug 14, 2019, 12:44 am
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Is it safer to lengthen the Femur?
(I know nothing is safe, but just asking from technical perspective of the surgery). How much lengthening do you recommend? I'm going Turkey and doing LON Method for 15$K.  (I'M 161cm)

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InFullStryde
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Posted on Aug 14, 2019, 12:51 am
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8cm is fine for lengthening the femur.   I believe that 5cm is the safe limit for tibia's.   

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Posted on Aug 14, 2019, 1:00 pm
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Quote from: Steffan on August 14, 2019, 12:44:10 AMIs it safer to lengthen the Femur?
(I know nothing is safe, but just asking from technical perspective of the surgery). How much lengthening do you recommend? I'm going Turkey and doing LON Method for 15$K.  (I'M 161cm)


lengthen 6.5 cm or 6cm and be done.

but dont do external on femur. its suicide.

only internal nail.

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MrJames
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Posted on Aug 15, 2019, 9:24 pm
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Quote from: Steffan on August 14, 2019, 12:44:10 AMIs it safer to lengthen the Femur?
(I know nothing is safe, but just asking from technical perspective of the surgery). How much lengthening do you recommend? I'm going Turkey and doing LON Method for 15$K.  (I'M 161cm)


Turkish doctors says:
Tibia 7-8 cm no problem lon method.

How?

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MrJames
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Posted on Aug 17, 2019, 7:18 am
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Quote from: tanerjames on August 15, 2019, 09:24:01 PMTurkish doctors says:
Tibia 7-8 cm no problem lon method.

How?


So, what do you think of both the internal nail and the external method? (LON)

Is 6.5 cm femur Lengthening a safe and realistic goal?

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Steffan
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Posted on Aug 17, 2019, 8:04 am
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LON is apparently the most chosen one. However i would do LON 7cm on femur and 5cm on tibia max if u wanna return back to normal

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tom paul 24
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Posted on Aug 17, 2019, 2:09 pm
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I dont think you will ever be back to normal if you do 10+cm.

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short
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Posted on Aug 17, 2019, 2:20 pm
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LON + femur stupid idea. You don't wanna have rods through one of your strongest muscles.

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MrJames
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Posted on Aug 17, 2019, 10:37 pm
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Quote from: short on August 17, 2019, 02:20:50 PMLON + femur stupid idea. You don't wanna have rods through one of your strongest muscles.


How so ?

LON method only fixed nails and external support device.

What is the difference?

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short
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Posted on Aug 17, 2019, 11:49 pm
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femur has big and strong muscles all around the bone compared to tibia.

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