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helloworld
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Posted on Feb 27, 2017, 6:31 pm
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OK! I got the message. I will speed up.
There should only be 2 weeks left anyway, for me to reach my goal. But as I already got a dense bone cloud, I will follow your, Yagan's, and Dr. Monegal's advice and speed up.

However, my physiotherapist, Claudio, said that preconsolidation is almost impossible to happen, more likely is too little bone formation, which is why I might have underestimated the risk.




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Posted on Feb 27, 2017, 6:38 pm
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Quote from: helloworld on February 27, 2017, 06:31:49 PMOK! I got the message. I will speed up.
There should only be 2 weeks left anyway, for me to reach my goal. But as I already got a dense bone cloud, I will follow your, Yagan's, and Dr. Monegal's advice and speed up.

However, my physiotherapist, Claudio, said that preconsolidation is almost impossible to happen, more likely is too little bone formation, which is why I might have underestimated the risk.

Pre-consolidation is a very real "risk" when you lengthening the femurs... Much more than the tibias (because of greater blood supply). That's why docs usually say 1mm a day for femurs... It's because they consolidate much faster than tibs (usually)
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Posted on Feb 27, 2017, 8:28 pm
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Quote from: helloworld on February 27, 2017, 06:31:49 PMOK! I got the message. I will speed up.
There should only be 2 weeks left anyway, for me to reach my goal. But as I already got a dense bone cloud, I will follow your, Yagan's, and Dr. Monegal's advice and speed up.

However, my physiotherapist, Claudio, said that preconsolidation is almost impossible to happen, more likely is too little bone formation, which is why I might have underestimated the risk.

Your what? You shouldn't listen to that guy. He has no clue. He is not a physiotherapist. Didn't you know? The doctors from Clinica Diagonal told Cooper he wasn't and some patients checked the internet and the data of the Collegio de Fisioterapetuas and he is illegal and he also hurt some patients according to one expatient. Prove me I'm not right.
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Posted on Feb 27, 2017, 9:16 pm
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Thanks for your advice!
Notimportant, you know a lot of details!
Claudio is not only the "physiotherapist" but also in the surgery team of the doctor and talks to the doctor every week, so you can see him  as the right hand of Dr. Monegal.
"Physio with certificate" or "physio without certificate" the most important is the knowledge in physiotherapy and of the specific patient.

Doctor Monegal has told me to lengthen faster, many of you have told me the same, so today I started lengthening faster :-)
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Posted on Feb 27, 2017, 9:35 pm
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Was Doctor Monegal who recommended him? That's even worse! I heard that this shady guy working in Diagonal cleaning the operating room showed up in patients' rooms to fish patients saying he was a physiotherapist while he wasn't but I didn't know it was the doctor himself who recommended him. In that case it's the doctor who could be sued and not only the fake physiotherapist without a license. Why would a Doctor recommend a guy who isn't licensed? That's stupid! Monegals business as a whole is shady: dishonest doctor, faulty nail, fake physiotherapist.
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Posted on Feb 28, 2017, 8:30 am
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Hello Notimportant,
you are using very strong languague about something it seems that you have only read about.
I, and 6 other lengthening patients that did the procedure at about the same time as me at Dr. Monegal and all got to know first hand
Dr. Monegal, Fitbone, Clinica Diagonal, Mic residency, are all very happy and all so far seem to be successful results.
The nail failure I had was not a serious complication. It was "just" the replacement of the implant. While it true that my left leg, which had the replacement, is doing a little worse than my right -less muscle strength, some pain, less lengthening, less flexibility- I assume that I will be 99% recovered in a few months.
So from all the patients I met, only musicmaker is not very happy with the outcome, even though she is improving. But even she thinks that Dr. Monegal and Fitbone are among the best combinations for cosmetic limb lengthening.

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Posted on Feb 28, 2017, 5:27 pm
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Quote from: helloworld on February 28, 2017, 08:30:43 AMHello Notimportant,
you are using very strong languague about something it seems that you have only read about.
I, and 6 other lengthening patients that did the procedure at about the same time as me at Dr. Monegal and all got to know first hand
Dr. Monegal, Fitbone, Clinica Diagonal, Mic residency, are all very happy and all so far seem to be successful results.
The nail failure I had was not a serious complication. It was "just" the replacement of the implant. While it true that my left leg, which had the replacement, is doing a little worse than my right -less muscle strength, some pain, less lengthening, less flexibility- I assume that I will be 99% recovered in a few months.
So from all the patients I met, only musicmaker is not very happy with the outcome, even though she is improving. But even she thinks that Dr. Monegal and Fitbone are among the best combinations for cosmetic limb lengthening.

I'm starting to think he is LLuser1. A bit less agressive version of LLuser1, tho. I wouldn't pay him much attention...

Glad to hear everythings going fine. Monegal is my top 1 choice and I'm really interested in your (and all of his patientes) wellbeing.
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Posted on Feb 28, 2017, 5:40 pm
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I'm not Lluser but I agree with him. My language isn't strong. This is very serious. The Doctor has allowed this guy to make profit of his patients and earn money without proper qualifications. If he's not a phsyiotherapist (the staff from the Clinica Diagonal said to Cooper and other patients and they verified in the Colegie de Fisioterapeautes) why does the Doctor allow him to act as such? I had heard this shady fake PT was fishing patients in the rooms of the Clinica and pushing them to hire him saying he was a physiotherapist and he wasn't. I didn't know it was Doctor Monegal who promoted that and that makes me think he's not honest.
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Posted on Feb 28, 2017, 7:00 pm
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The reason for promoting that particular person trainer, is that he sees Dr. Monegal every week and exchange patient information with him. Also, Dr. Monegal has control over him.
For example, I know of a patient, who was not very happy about an issue and talked to Dr. Monegal, and Dr. Monegal talked to the personal trainer, and the issue was resolved.
So it is good that Dr. has close contact to the person helping you in recovery.
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Posted on Feb 28, 2017, 9:23 pm
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Quote from: notimportant on February 28, 2017, 05:40:33 PMI'm not Lluser but I agree with him. My language isn't strong. This is very serious. The Doctor has allowed this guy to make profit of his patients and earn money without proper qualifications. If he's not a phsyiotherapist (the staff from the Clinica Diagonal said to Cooper and other patients and they verified in the Colegie de Fisioterapeautes) why does the Doctor allow him to act as such? I had heard this shady fake PT was fishing patients in the rooms of the Clinica and pushing them to hire him saying he was a physiotherapist and he wasn't. I didn't know it was Doctor Monegal who promoted that and that makes me think he's not honest.
I'm not sure, but I think maybe he is not registered at "Colegie de Fisioterapeutes" because thats probably just the catalonian register. If he studied physioterapy in some other part of Spain he may be registered there.

I don't know, maybe he is a close friend of Monegal and he makes a favor delivering patients to him and maybe he is not physioterapist but studied other health-related career. Illegal practice is not that easy in Spain, which may be a country with major flaws, but still one of the safest countries in the world.
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