yeah some forum posts mentinoed i might lose up to 2mm on the mitkovic device due to pin bending, not sure how true that is though, i will have to ask him.
im glad you got your full height though.
How bad was your equinus?
Yea it's possible I may have gained a little more than 6 cm because of spinal compression throughout the day, but either way it's just a nice thing mentally that I'm officially at the 5'7 mark.
Quote from: Arch on August 05, 2015, 09:40:08 PMHow bad was your equinus?
Only my toes could touch the ground, and it happened suddenly as in one night my feet were completely neutral and the next morning I stood up and I had equinus.
Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 05, 2015, 09:41:54 PMOnly my toes could touch the ground, and it happened suddenly as in one night my feet were completely neutral and the next morning I stood up and I had equinus.
May I ask what did you do to get rid of it? And how is your dorsiflexion currently?
had a word with my doctor, he said there is a chance you could lose 1.5mm of height due to pin bending, he said with ilzarov you could lose 4mm!
just thought i'd throw that out there.
so your final height is 170, im so sure you said your starting height was 164 then you said 165. i think you should use a medical stadiometer to measure your height to make sure, that's what i use.
may i ask if you plan to wear any lifts and are you considering a 2nd LL, sorry if this has been asked before, we are both in the same boat you and I so im interested.
personally post op. i will be wearing lifts, likely 4cm to be an aweome height hehe, ill just be like tom cruise in that regard.
Quote from: Dozer on August 06, 2015, 12:59:42 AMMay I ask what did you do to get rid of it? And how is your dorsiflexion currently?
I'd use the zimmer frame and walk around my office for a half hour at a time, pressing my heels down as far as they would go with each step. Another exercise that helped was to stand and hold on to the frame, put one foot forward, and with the other foot put all my weight on it and try to push my heel to the floor as much as possible for as long as I could hold it, then switch legs and do the same thing.
Also had to go back to using the foot straps tied to the frame while sleeping at night. I stopped using them because I could never get any sleep and it set me back in progress quite a bit. Once I got back to using them at night, the progress with the stretching during the day was a lot faster.
I haven't measured my dorsiflexion exactly, but I'll get it done at the physical therapy office at the end of this month. I believe it's around pre-op level though (which was still less than average according to the hospital physio).
Quote from: microman on August 06, 2015, 10:54:06 AMhad a word with my doctor, he said there is a chance you could lose 1.5mm of height due to pin bending, he said with ilzarov you could lose 4mm!
just thought i'd throw that out there.
so your final height is 170, im so sure you said your starting height was 164 then you said 165. i think you should use a medical stadiometer to measure your height to make sure, that's what i use.
may i ask if you plan to wear any lifts and are you considering a 2nd LL, sorry if this has been asked before, we are both in the same boat you and I so im interested.
personally post op. i will be wearing lifts, likely 4cm to be an aweome height hehe, ill just be like tom cruise in that regard.
The loss would really just be your turns not matching up with your actual distraction. For the first few mm a lot of it is due to muscle resistance, but once everything is in place you shouldn't lose your actual distraction amount that's shown from an x-ray measurement. That's what my doc told me and my gain seems to match up with what the x-ray showed for total distraction.
I thought before getting measured before surgery that I was exactly 165, but it turned out to be 164. Got measured with the stadiometer at the doctor's office so I'm sure it's exactly 170 cm in the afternoon.
I tried multiple types of lifts before and hated all of them because by the end of the day I'd have bad pain in my feet and lower back. Lifts are a no go for sure.
As for another leg lengthening, I really couldn't pull it off without getting an arm lengthening done as well. At the moment it looks like I'm done, but if I happen to have a lot of time and am financially better off with my business a few years down the line, I may consider it.
no im refering to the x ray saying 5.0cm at the end of distraction, then you remove the device and if you took a new x ray it would say 4.9cm.
it apparently does happen, but only some of the time, and no way to tell, i have seen old posts on the old forum about this a few times, maybe its only a 5% chance and 1mm at most, maybe it can only be checked if you do another x ray after removal, maybe people don't bother.
oh right so your 170, i will be that height after my LL.
i think rg key has pic of him in 4cm lifts, i would say given our final height we should put up with lifts of some kind, we would be like tom cruise who is 170 in lifts to a great height of 174.
its only if you remove the device early, or if you get pin bending, or if the x ray was inaccurate.
but is there anyway to tell if you have pin bending before the removing of the device? and anyway to sort that.
Quote from: microman on August 07, 2015, 07:34:02 AMbut is there anyway to tell if you have pin bending before the removing of the device? and anyway to sort that.
You can see the bent pins in the x-rays.
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