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Posted on Aug 25, 2019, 6:32 pm
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I don't know 100% yet, but visually (which I don't trust, cause could be bd), and through repeated self-measurement (which can be inaccurate, but I've measured a lot, multiple times now with different methods from tape measure, marking wall, myself, etc) my femur seems to be measured longer than my tibia? If I measure from my hip-bone then yes my femur is longer, but x-rays show that the femur starts around the middle of the pelvis/not the hip bone, so I chose an approximate location that I feel like I can feel my femur at, and got around a ~3-4cm difference between my femur and tibia.

If I chose to go lengthening on the tibia, would it cause any problems? I don't really care about visual proportions because not everyone is proportionate anyways, and most people won't notice, plus I can adjust my clothing. Mostly wondering about potential health issues like arthritis, or any other joint/bone problems due to irregularities in proportions. Or is it nothing to really worry about when lengthening?

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Posted on Oct 24, 2019, 10:12 am
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tibia cant be longer than femur. normal ratio is 0.8 . if you lenghten tibia dont do over 20% length of original bone
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Posted on Oct 31, 2019, 5:09 pm
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Quote from: dunghuynh2227 on October 24, 2019, 10:12:24 AMtibia cant be longer than femur. normal ratio is 0.8 . if you lenghten tibia dont do over 20% length of original bone
i only did less than 15% of original length and my tibia is stil equal to my femur.
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