Nerve and muscle issues with LON femur with Dr Halil?

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Have read some post in this forum which say you should avoid LON femur because it gives nerve and muscle issues. Somebody who have done LON femur surgery with dr Halil: Do you have any nerve and muscle issues?

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Im all ears

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Quote from: Bob on August 16, 2021, 06:01:10 PMHave read some post in this forum which say you should avoid LON femur because it gives nerve and muscle issues. Somebody who have done LON femur surgery with dr Halil: Do you have any nerve and muscle issues?

you gonna have pain and muscle pain regardless if your doing LON or Precise. You're stretching nerves, tendons, and muscles that in reality are not meant to be messed with. Our height is supposed to be our height. When you go in there messing with things against biology some pain will be involved. Theres no way to avoid that.

Comfort on the other hand, LON is more uncomfortable that internals. LON is clunky and limiting as you can only sleep one way which is on your back due to the fixators being attached to the sides of your legs. Also you pretty much have an open wound for the time the frames are on which causes more pain. I assume its equivalent to having a gash that won heal. Then internals like Precice, even though is painful as well gives you a better comfort because everything is tucked neatly inside your body. meaning you can sleep better and have a sense of normalcy because theres something not attached to you that you see everyday reminding you of what you have done.

I don't think It's Nerve and muscle pains for femurs with Dr. Halil..... But I'll say it's just LON in general and how it works. Any surgeon who performs LON theres really nothing they can do to hinder nerve and muscle pains and issues because its your body literally telling you stop this, it aint natural.. lol

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Following what @Growing said, its also due to the amount of muscles and nerves that you need to insert the pins through in the upper vs lower leg. A lot of experts do not recommend LON femur so I would tread with caution.

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@Slender, I don't know why I laughed so hard when I saw your profile pic.. lol.. Its like my worst case physique when im done CLL... I'm only doing it once so hopefully my legs don't look like that compared to the rest of my body..lmao

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Quote from: Bob on August 16, 2021, 06:01:10 PMHave read some post in this forum which say you should avoid LON femur because it gives nerve and muscle issues. Somebody who have done LON femur surgery with dr Halil: Do you have any nerve and muscle issues?

Here's what my doctor had to say about external/LON femurs back in 2015:

In the case of femoral lengthening, a longer lengthening may be possible, because it's surrounded by muscle (unlike the tibia where there are less muscles and more tendons - comparatively speaking). Having said that, external lengthening on the femur tends to cause more problems with muscle scarring and consequent stiffness, compared to the tibia, precisely because the femur is surrounded by muscle. So what one gains in length, one may lose in terms of function. This is the primary reason why most surgeons would not do external femoral lengthening for CLL...I don’t recommend and have done only a single case of LON in the femur for CLL. That was many moons ago, at the beginning of my experience with CLL. I have done it in unilateral cases for smaller lengthening, but even there the numbers are miniscule. Not enough to draw any conclusions.

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2783.msg43784#msg43784