yes i would recomend him, he is the cheapest and one of the better places to go mostly due to staying in hotel.
anyway
Dr. Mitkovic arrived tonight to check my x-ray, he said x ray good, no pre consolidation or any other issues, I had a bone fragment in the left leg but he said that that’s actually a good thing and it’s better than having a perfect gap like the right leg has, he said I am good exerciser after viewing my straight leg, ballerina and lifting the leg up and down straight, he said he would guess I am at 1.5cm but he can confirm by taking the cd to check on his own.
I asked him if it’s okay to be about 2 weeks late using the walker and if it would affect recovery much, his sheet sais ‘use walker after 3-4 weeks’ after all, he said not to worry about that and it is perfectly fine to use the walker at a later time.
He said the walker is not important right now, he said the most important thing is 4 surface turns a day and exercises, so I am going to follow the doctors advise and spend more time doing exercises rather than trying to stand up/walk with walker.
according to x ray i have done 1.6 cm on right leg and 1.5cm on left leg, so that puts me at 166cm. i find that interesting as going by my chart i should have gotten 1.4cm per leg, and that's assuing the first few mm didn't distract, which clearly they did, and then some? i wonder where the other 2 mm came from?
microman monorail tibias dr. mitkovic
Quote from: microman on August 15, 2015, 08:22:48 PMyes i would recomend him, he is the cheapest and one of the better places to go mostly due to staying in hotel.
anyway
Dr. Mitkovic arrived tonight to check my x-ray, he said x ray good, no pre consolidation or any other issues, I had a bone fragment in the left leg but he said that that’s actually a good thing and it’s better than having a perfect gap like the right leg has, he said I am good exerciser after viewing my straight leg, ballerina and lifting the leg up and down straight, he said he would guess I am at 1.5cm but he can confirm by taking the cd to check on his own.
I asked him if it’s okay to be about 2 weeks late using the walker and if it would affect recovery much, his sheet sais ‘use walker after 3-4 weeks’ after all, he said not to worry about that and it is perfectly fine to use the walker at a later time.
He said the walker is not important right now, he said the most important thing is 4 surface turns a day and exercises, so I am going to follow the doctors advise and spend more time doing exercises rather than trying to stand up/walk with walker.
according to x ray i have done 1.6 cm on right leg and 1.5cm on left leg, so that puts me at 166cm. i find that interesting as going by my chart i should have gotten 1.4cm per leg, and that's assuing the first few mm didn't distract, which clearly they did, and then some? i wonder where the other 2 mm came from?
Microman.. Listen to me and listen to me very carefully.. Dr Mitkovic is a very kind man, and he will always tell you everything will be ok and that everything will be fine.. your finding any excuse not to walk, which is a shocking attitude.. the fact that he told u that u r a good excerciser proves that he will just tell u what u want to hear..cause ur not a good exerciser..uve lengthened 1.5cm which is barely an amount to have any problems at all.. i know from experience that the doctor doesnt check how bent ur legs are, he just quickly looks and says, yeah that looks good,without actually knowing.. youve basically convinced yourself that not walking is ok.. i cant believe u can be so ignorant.. seriously.. even after i told u how important it is... u needed 2 grown men to help u just to stand up onto your walker and then u panicked and said it was too hard and had to be put down immediately.. and now ur saying u can get away with not walking still.. lets say u dont walk for another week or so, uve lengthened more, ur legs are worse than they are now, how do you expect to get yourself up? ull end up telling urself its impossible and then continue not to walk.. if ur too lazy to do it now, ur not going to do it later unless you have assistance.. so start doing it now.. stop being so lazy, get a physio in so he can force you to use your walker.. and keep using the physio until you can do it yourself.. ive told u all this before so u have no excuse.. the information is there, so use it.. otherwise ull be a potato for a very long time..
if you have severe ballerina at 1 cm... which is really strage, then youre going to have serious issues
you should stop lengthening... i cant imagine how bad your ballerina will be over 5 cm
oh man pt is so important but so expensive!
so..mitkovic is not behaving properly when he says everything ok? why does he do that?
Quote from: spaller2015 on August 16, 2015, 09:20:05 AMoh man pt is so important but so expensive!
so..mitkovic is not behaving properly when he says everything ok? why does he do that?
well he doesnt want patients to worry.. so as long as they are happy hes happy.. the thing is if i had something wrong i would really have to show him for him to understand.. he told me my legs didnt have any knee bending but then i said ''but look when i sit on a hard surface'' and only when i showed him he said.. oh you must stretch, use weights to push it down etc.. the thing is microman only believes what he wants to believe.. so he has someone like me who is experienced with having this device, telling him what he should do, but because it requires effort he chooses to ignore.. the doctor comes in and just says, yes u r doing ok.. the reason the doctor says he doesnt have to walk yet is because his main concern is the patient can move their legs, thats it. them making a recovery to being able to walk isnt really any of his concern because he is the surgeon not the physio therapist.. the less you do during the lengthening, the more it builds up.. i even told microman about another patient, who didnt walk the whole lengthening phase.. his operation was 9 months ago.. he still cant walk properly.. he has to do strict physio therapy now just to allow him to even stand up with a walker etc.. yet i had my surgery 5 months ago and i can walk normally, do everything myself, go and have a good time.. but still he chooses to ignore because he only cares to do what is easiest for him now.. which is do effortless stretching on the bed and not have to walk..
Hello,
microman, can you update your situation? Please post some X-RAY pictures.
On X-ray posted with Dr. Mitkovic device I never saw fibula fixed. Can you post some picture that fixation can be seen?
i dont have pics, i got cd from xray place but i dont have cd drive.
that's me at 4.3cm, everything going well.
will see the doctor next week after an x-ray, then he can tell me how much further lengthening i can do, maybe i can go to 6.5cm but i will let him be the judge.
Quote from: microman on September 30, 2015, 02:19:06 PMthat's me at 4.3cm, everything going well.
will see the doctor next week after an x-ray, then he can tell me how much further lengthening i can do, maybe i can go to 6.5cm but i will let him be the judge.
high microman.. are you able to walk or stand yet?
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