Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on July 03, 2017, 03:36:46 AMHey guys, I am 100% back to everyday life. Unfortunately I can't go back to med school until next year so not much to do but pass the time. However, as of now, I am able to live a normal life to a point.
Unfortunately not everything is good because my consolidation is slower than my fellow lenghteners who did it around the same time as me. I have a very different pattern of consolidation in which the bone is not hypertrophic but healing occurs mostly when the bone originally was.
I post my xrays exactly 4 months post op. Please Penguinn if you can, check them out and tell me your opinion as this is also your pattern of consolidation.
http://imgur.com/R0gq3E1
http://imgur.com/mknXi7m
http://imgur.com/z65KELn
Am really happy to hear this great and positive news, you can enjoy every inch now haha. About med school why you can't attend now? and your fellow how many cm did they lengthened?
Limb Lenghtening with Dr Guichet 2017
Thanks Kaiser! Because it's my year of internship and it starts on January 1st and ends on December 31st. I pretty much lost one year but it was what I intended. The majority of the people who lengthened at the same time as me did around 6 cm, but I knew guys who did from 5 to 8 cm. They all recovered very good and fast.
I wonder, proportionally speaking, how does those 6cm look? Do your femurs look much longer or are 6cm a pretty subtle change?
Have you done mock-ups before? If so, does it look the same?
Never cared too much about proportions, but I had short legs. After this 6 cm increase, I can finally wear jeans for adults without having to cut them (I'm still the smallest size though). My femurs look longer but not by a lot and better overall. According to Dr Guichet I would still have to lengthen 3 cm to get to the "perfect proportion" (which I don't care about) and my tibias are small for my size before lengthening so a lot smaller for my current height.
This is my pattern of consolidation on my good (right) leg. On my left, I'm waiting for the callus on one side.
Looks awesome, you have callus on both sides on both legs. Rejoice 
Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on July 05, 2017, 10:15:01 PM According to Dr Guichet I would still have to lengthen 3 cm to get to the "perfect proportion" (which I don't care about) and my tibias are small for my size before lengthening so a lot smaller for my current height.
THe "perfect proportions" of Guichet state femur should be 29% of total height! However, that seems too much. After lengthening my femur is 28%. And elsewhere I found 26% is average, 27% is ideal. Those numbers seem more realisitic.
"For men, average height is 1.76 m (5 feet, 9.5 inches) and for women 1.68 m (5 feet, 6.25 inches). In terms of anthropometrics, the length of the femur represents 29% of standing height, while the tibia represents 80% of femur length."
average women are not 168.. Just saying
Quote from: TIBIKE200 on July 06, 2017, 09:33:28 AMaverage women are not 168.. Just saying
I totally agree! Average height for women is average height of men - 13.
The part in brackets was taken from Guichet website.
I think it is written in a way to make people want to lengthen their legs.
My femur length before surgery was around 40 cm, so now after surgery it's 46 cm / 170 cm x 100 = 27% so now I'm ideal 
My tibia length is 34 cm so to be 80% of femur length it would have to be around 37 cm.
Well, it seems like even now I could handle lengthening in both my femur and tibias without straying too far from the norm.
Quote from: helloworld on July 06, 2017, 08:00:41 AMTHe "perfect proportions" of Guichet state femur should be 29% of total height! However, that seems too much. After lengthening my femur is 28%. And elsewhere I found 26% is average, 27% is ideal. Those numbers seem more realisitic.
"For men, average height is 1.76 m (5 feet, 9.5 inches) and for women 1.68 m (5 feet, 6.25 inches). In terms of anthropometrics, the length of the femur represents 29% of standing height, while the tibia represents 80% of femur length."
Helloworld, could you send me the source of your info about proportions?
Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on July 06, 2017, 03:53:29 PM
Helloworld, could you send me the source of your info about proportions?
http://www.drguichet.com/proportion-and-possible-gain/
"For men, average height is 1.76 m (5 feet, 9.5 inches) and for women 1.68 m (5 feet, 6.25 inches). In terms of anthropometrics, the length of the femur represents 29% of standing height, while the tibia represents 80% of femur length."
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