mitkovic monorail fixators for sale

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Is anyone interested in purchasing my used monorail mitkovic fixators.  Im having a clear out but I don't want to throw them away or put in a box for years to come that I will forget about
I have 2 fixators and nearly all the pins minus 1 or 2

I know some may just like the novelty of owning a piece of early ll history    before all the million new types of inventions became available

Any offers?

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That's the thing lads.  To me, these fixators changed my life in so many ways.  I feel a great deal of attachemnet to them.  It almost feels like Im selling a lung but as I said its something that someone can have a five minute play with and store away for the future .  It still brings a sense of warmth just looking at them.  My leg lengthening journey was a total nightmare and very hard at times and I just feel I need to sell them to bring it all to a end and so I can start a new chapter in my life.  I just cant bring myself to throw them away and to store them just doesn't feel right.  I owe these fixators a lot.  Without the mitkovoic treatment I feel I would have totally gone medically insaine. 
My diary is still on old forum , and will be for along time Id imagine. 
Some people collect stamps, cards, books and other stuff that others see as a total waste of time and money.  The fixators are in that category.  To most people they are rubbish/trash and should be binned but to some they are genuine ll history that they can keep for themselves

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Just looked over the fixators
1 fixator is for femur and the other fixator is for tibia

makes it a bit more of a bargain I guess

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on May 28, 2014, 09:17:18 PMIt's an intriguing offer for a piece of history (an alternate history I never got to live).  I just wish I had a place to put them.  My place is so full of stuff as it is.

You used ilizarovs didn't you mate??  Think I remember you from old forum ??

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on May 29, 2014, 06:52:41 PMI went to Serbia first but things didn't work out.  It was one of the biggest disappointments of my life.

Yeah I remember now mate
You used to be short drink of water,lol

I think the monorail is a lot more comfortable device than ilizarov

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The monorail is very easy to adjust to realign bones.  Ilizarov fixator is more stable but if you use crutches then monorail is more than ok for stability
I believe that the ilizarov technique is the worst possible device because of all the soft tissue damage when the wires pass all the way through the leg.  Its soft tissue that doesn't recover.  The bone will heal properly with any device but the more wires/cables is what caused all my problems with infection/pain etc

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yes it is easy to hide under baggy trousers

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Quote from: Wannabegiant on May 30, 2014, 09:13:20 PMSince the wires dont go through he muscles, at least from what i was told, the soft tissue will definitely recover from the pin sites. So you will heal just as much with an Ilizarov device as you would with a monorail device. It might take a bit longer though because of more pins.

With ilizarov ,
The wires are  through the bone but over time during lengthen the skin starts to rip in snake lines.  Ive got skin stuck to my bone still in places.  Ive had a wire that pulled on my calf muscle and has caused a big dent in my calf.  I had wires through my knees and come out through the back that has caused damage to my tendons in the back of my knee
I had wires through my ankles that have damaged the muscle and ankle tendons.
I had a wire through my muscle right in the middle of my leg at the front, think its called fascia muscle or something that has caused a rip in the muscle that has joined with scar tissue that is not flexible.  scar tissue is not flexible like soft tissue, at times I can feel the scar tissue ripping even more.
The tendons in the back of my knee are not smooth now, they seem very rough and bobbled

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after ilizarovs

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femur and tibia monorail