Quote from: microman on September 30, 2015, 05:34:34 PMi think with balerina you can stand up for long periods of time on tip toes, i don't feel it is the same as actually standing on tip toes.
i think it's kindof like lifts or high heels, its like your heel stops naturally so it's not stressful to be on tip toes.
how do you walk then?
Quote from: microman on September 30, 2015, 05:34:34 PMi think with balerina you can stand up for long periods of time on tip toes, i don't feel it is the same as actually standing on tip toes.
i think it's kindof like lifts or high heels, its like your heel stops naturally so it's not stressful to be on tip toes.
micromn, that is serious level of ballerina........
ballerina is not measured when sitting down, although it gives us a good indication of your real ballerina, so the picture is usefull .....
of all the patients I have ever met I have never seen a patient get ballerina while sitting down..... I always thought it was next to impossible for a patient to get ballerina that bad..........
have you told mitkovic about it?
you might have like 6-8cm of ballerina possibly.
my heels don't lift up when sitting no matter if 90 degrees less or more. Only when standing up I have my heels above the ground. Because of ballerina my doctor told me to stop lengthening for 1 week to rest the soft tissues on muscles. Maybe it's a good idea?
that might be, maybe it's best 1 turn per day giving 0.16m just to make sure no pre-consolidation?
yeah last week i showed mitkovic it off the ground while sitting and i stretched using the strap on the bed, he said it was okay 
ill have to buy a walker that fits my height to confirm what my balerina is while standing.
at 4.5cm there is no danger of preconsolidation. the callous is pliable for a very long time.
Spoke with dr. mitkovic today about ballerina and ATL as well, he said he has had many patients with severe ballerina and it always goes away when you start walking with full weight bearing during consolidation, he said not to worry about ballerina.
Regardless im going to lower distraction rate and work on trying to get my ballerina better.
I will get an x ray tomorrow or next day then dr. mitkovic will come and see me and he will see my ballerina in person, we should have a better idea then.
What has been your average lengthening each day? Looks like you are going slow so I am surprised you have ballerina.
spoke with dr mitkovic,
he said my muscles are quite tense and recomend me 2 days break then go to 0.5mm a day, he said he wouldn't recomend higher than 6.5cm to me, he said if i try to go to 7cm i would get misalingment, however most patients here got misalingment anyway at around the 3cm mark, maybe it was a different type of misalingment?
had a 6.5cm review with dr mitkovic and a new x-ray for him to see.
he said i could go to 7.0cm and the risk would be minor misalingment, it would not be as bad as the misaligment that discreteuser had at 2.7cm, his was more moderate to major.
spoke to another patient here who got major misalingment at 3.5cm, he said they tried to fix it 3 times then he had to do a minor operation to finally fix it, that was also a major misalingment.
the dr. said i would have a high chance of major misalingment at 7.5cm.
i have decided to go to 7.0cm and risk a minor misaligment, but it is likely i wont risk the major misalingment to 7.5, interestingly the other 3 patients before me had major misalingmets at around 3cm so in context things seem very good so far.
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