Is arm-lengthening that easy?

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I was thinking about it, considering the amount I lengthened, but I just can't afford any more time to lose. But I've heard and from the patients also that lengthening arms is no where near as bad as lengthening legs, I mean look at Apo: he's lengthening his arms, while starring in a movie? And when you think about it, for sure it shouldn't be as bad, considering you don't need crutches, you move fine and you can use your arms for daily basic tasks. So you should be able to get it while not losing any time with your life. What do you think?

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Quote from: kunta kinte on August 28, 2014, 01:13:03 PMDo you think arm lengthening would have an impact on your finger movement during and after lengthening? Lets say someone is a guitar or a piano player or does anything in which his fingers need to be fast and accurate.

I doubt you lose any function. It says here that humerus lengthening is the safest of all:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323419/
QuoteThe lengthening procedure was well tolerated by all the patients. The patients’ co-operation was favourable, and all could maintain their normal daily activities – with slight restrictions

QuoteWe found that the humerus had almost the same healing index (range: 25–40 day/cm) as the bones of the lower extremity, but patients who had humeral lengthening had a faster functional recovery. Functional recovery following tibial or femoral lengthening takes about 32 months; this is in contrast with humeral lengthening, which takes only 8 months.

QuoteBtw, do you know how much do people lengthen, surely you can't lengthen an arm bone as you can a tibia or a femur.

I know it's usual for achondroplasia patients to lengthen 10cm on each arm, but that's because they're lengthening overall more than 30cm in their legs. For me lengthening 5cm for a gain in arm span of 10cm sounds the most optimal

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on August 28, 2014, 03:34:05 PMI haven't seen anyone really lengthening their arms, only Apo says he has (but we have no proof he did). It's really of very little use, because you can't lengthen your forearm, only your humerus, and it would look really weird if your humerus were longer than your forearms. Forget about it.

They actually lengthen forearms too, I know my doc does. I don't think it'll look very weird, unless you lengthen too much -  the same principle applies when you're lengthening your lower limbs.