Quote from: KiloKAHN on January 10, 2017, 09:24:01 PMWell if it's femur lengthening with LON, then it makes sense to do fewer CM. The muscles around the femur are very strong and the monorail can only tolerate the muscle resistance up to a point. Beyond that the chance of misalignment problems increases a great deal because it can't handle all that tension. This is in addition to the scarring that causes reduction of knee ROM. My doc said he wouldn't do more than 3 or 4 cm with femur LON for CLL because of these reasons.
For tibia is it better to do hybrid ext. fixator or LON? Are the benefits of LON over external fixator worth the increased chance of perm knee pain? Is the hybrid over pure external different significantly or only marginally?