Quote from: Want-3-inches on May 28, 2021, 01:20:56 PMGood job keynes.
Do you have a full length x-ray of your legs? Could you post a pic with both your feet together and knees straight?
Hi Keynes, do you have this? At least the latter?
Thank you
No, I don't have full length x rays. and, bro I am not comfortable in sharing my full legs picture as I wish to keep my anonymity, hope you will understand.
Quote from: Keynes on June 05, 2021, 06:29:57 AMNo, I don't have full length x rays. and, bro I am not comfortable in sharing my full legs picture as I wish to keep my anonymity, hope you will understand.
You have already been sharing videos of you walking in shorts. A photo with your feet together and knees not bent, would not be much different, would it?
Quote from: Want-3-inches on June 05, 2021, 07:04:10 AMYou have already been sharing videos of you walking in shorts. A photo with your feet together and knees not bent, would not be much different, would it?
Yeah, that is the best I could share for now. If you are concerned about my leg alignment, rest assure all is fine.
About the full length x-rays, it is certainly a part of my to do list and I will definitely post them when I get them done.
Quote from: Keynes on June 01, 2021, 04:15:27 AMDay 112: Posting a new video from todays PT session. My right leg continues to remain a problem due to less callus, therefore trying to be careful and putting less weight on it. My left is doing majority of the work here.
https://imgur.com/kRN0v6Q
https://imgur.com/nyyGTBt
From these videos it appears like you have mild genu valgum. I don't known if it's clinically significant. Just an honest opinion, hope you don't take it in the wrong sense.
Cheers
Quote from: Want-3-inches on June 05, 2021, 08:39:20 AMFrom these videos it appears like you have mild genu valgum. I don't known if it's clinically significant. Just an honest opinion, hope you don't take it in the wrong sense.
Cheers
"Thanks for your concern. I checked with my doctor and also understood the concept in detail, based on which I can tell that I don't have any such condition. May be due to my penguin like gait (which is normal to expect following LL) it might appear like genu valgum as u mentioned, but all is well. I will see if I can post a standing picture of my bare knees and feet. But I can't disclose my bare legs above knees. Also, I will post my full leg x-rays as and when I get them.
Genu valgum is a medical condition in which a person is unable join his knees and feet simultaneously given a standing posture. That is not the case with me.
And please note, these videos that I posted here have been shot at a very early stage of rehab. I have not even completed 1 month post my second surgery (the frame removal) and progress seems quite good according to the doctor. Please be clear, the walking in these videos is not normal and definitely not perfect, this walk has to seen as an exercise, a part of rehabilitation (I am in no rush to run a marathon, LOL). All these videos are recordings from my PT session. I don't want to exaggerate with these videos but share my LL journey the way it is, I understand the mental stress that short people go through and speaking with words may not suffice (given the extreme nature of the surgery). To be honest, when I am walking, I feel extreme stretch in Achilles, pain on the osteotomy site (especially in the right leg), and most important I have to concentrate on body balancing. All these issues have improved significantly compared to the start, but they still exist and have not completely gone away."
Quote from: dexter1930 on May 31, 2021, 08:16:01 AMgreat, I wish time fly fast to another 30days so I can remove the fixtator nails and walk with crunches like you
I am quite sure you will, just be strong in your mind. Best wishes and take care.
Posting a new video from my PT session. Day before yesterday I took about 1/2 km walk on a nearby street with Harry, on and off the crutches (using only one elbow crutch). Also had a party yesterday with Harry and some other LL patients, it was fun. Overall I still have pain here and there, hope they all reduce with time.
https://imgur.com/a/vbpxn8T?s=wa
Thanks for the video man. I honestly still feel like you have knock knees because it takes effort to put feet and knees together and there might have been a possible slight knee bend as well.
But as you say it could be because of muscle weakness too. Hope to continue seeing you recover and the problem might disappear as you gain strength.
All the best!
Quote from: Want-3-inches on June 13, 2021, 09:04:03 AMThanks for the video man. I honestly still feel like you have knock knees because it takes effort to put feet and knees together and there might have been a possible slight knee bend as well.
But as you say it could be because of muscle weakness too. Hope to continue seeing you recover and the problem might disappear as you gain strength.
All the best!
You are wrong. It appears that way because I’ve lost too much muscles in my thighs. Like I Mentioned in my earlier post, I have not even completed one month post my frame removal surgery. at such an early stage of rehab, It takes time to join feet because it disturbs my balancing, which is one of many things that I concentrate on when I’m walking. The job is easier when I am lying on the bed as balance is out of question.
In the case of knock knees, you loose the ability to join your knees and feet together given a standing posture. You can look for this online, there are research papers and even images of the condition.
I will definitely post a video in couple of months, hopefully my muscles should recover by that time.
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