LATN Femurs - Dr Singh

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Thx KirP1. Yes I m enjoying my life and feeling very happy, satisfied with the results.
@Alex, yes I can see the Roms improving day by day. As soon as after frame removal , your legs just become so light and flexible. My left Rom has reached about 80' now. And no longer very stiff like before. Right is quite painful at the moment due to its swelling having its huge alignment fixed but still it's improving.

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on July 20, 2015, 05:50:19 AMLooking good on those x-rays!  He seems to have fixed the misalignment quite well.

Congratulations, you're almost halfway done with LL.
Yes, thanks Mdow. I m also quite proud of dr Singh. He has done a great work, fixing those huge alignments without even losing the gap and everything.

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Congratulations, bluebarbie. It feels great to no longer have foreign objects sticking into your legs, doesn't it?

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on July 22, 2015, 03:11:26 AMCongratulations, bluebarbie. It feels great to no longer have foreign objects sticking into your legs, doesn't it?

Yes it sure does. Life has changed to its better, more comfortable level. But still got lots of work to do before full recovery, isn't it?

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Hey

Any updated about your knees ? how much can you bend now ?

By the way, when will you can put all your weight on legs ?

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did you measure your bone gap after surgery?

please don't tell me you just took your doctors word for it. its better to check these things out. (when my doctor told me that I didn't loose length after a correction I did and I fixed it) always check yourself.

also I was a little shocked at your diary because your external devices looked like they were just slapped on without any surgical precision at all. I mean 1 was parallel to the bone the other was not. the reason I was shocked is because I thought when you pay 80,000 dollars you get like world class precision. not just a throw together job.

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Quote from: MRbones on July 23, 2015, 10:33:11 PMdid you measure your bone gap after surgery?

please don't tell me you just took your doctors word for it. its better to check these things out. (when my doctor told me that I didn't loose length after a correction I did and I fixed it) always check yourself.

also I was a little shocked at your diary because your external devices looked like they were just slapped on without any surgical precision at all. I mean 1 was parallel to the bone the other was not. the reason I was shocked is because I thought when you pay 80,000 dollars you get like world class precision. not just a throw together job.

Hey man, she already did her surgery successful, her external device did the work as well. (external devices looked like they were just slapped on without any surgical precision at all). if it was like that I don't think she was going to be able to do more than 8 cm and walk on the device.

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also successful surgery depends on how you look at it. she lengthened along the anatomical axis and not the mechanical axis. (correct me if im wrong bluebarbie)

8cm along the anatomical axis doesn't seem like a good idea to me. her knees will be closer together now.

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Quote from: MRbones on July 24, 2015, 04:02:53 AMalso successful surgery depends on how you look at it. she lengthened along the anatomical axis and not the mechanical axis. (correct me if im wrong bluebarbie)

8cm along the anatomical axis doesn't seem like a good idea to me. her knees will be closer together now.

Yes, my knees come in abit closer. I noticed it as soon as after nailing is done. But shouldn't be a problem, I think coz it happens with pure internals as well. And mine is very little that u can't even tell.
About my final gain of lenght, if u had finished my diary or my blog, I m sure you would clearly see how much that matters to me and how I struggled for precise gaining of my targeted length. The xray department in Singapore and my doctor believed I gained 8.8cms in the final xrays, it's not the the first time I had been having similar problem. But the final gain will come out in precise numbers calculated and calibrated on xray films next month. Most LLers are facing that problem too and I have aldy mentioned it before. I have discussed the matter over with my dr many times too. I strongly believe it will not be more then a millimeter different from the measurement I stated in my signature.
I know it is quite early to predict if mine is a successful LL or not yet it is about 75% done successfully without any complications.

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well, congratulations on the height blue barbie. your quality of life should be amazing compared to before now that you have completed your LL journey.

I was just raising some of these issues just to make you aware of what I saw just in case you need to do further research on the issues. in truth some small anatomical changes should not be an issue as long as your walking is not affected.

and if it is affected leading to knock knee type gait it takes 7 years for mechanical bone remodeling in which it will naturally fix itself. so either way you should be fine.

I look forward to your future x rays and your walking recovery. and yes you are correct many internals do only offer anatomical lengthening options. 

again congratulations for all the hard work. and good luck on your recovery