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I had sort of a very slight shatter like break on the left femur but it healed totally fine because bone wasn't lost. Your alignment seems good too and if there's callus, it shouldn't matter how clean the cut was. This is purely based off second hand knowledge, I'm no doctor.

Also do NOT do 11.5cms on your tibias. There's no way you come out of that close to normal, and your proportions are going to look downright comical.

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Quote from: Frost on February 03, 2018, 05:48:47 PMI've seen a good amount of limb lengthening x rays and although the bone at that spot looks "shattered" its "normal in my opinion" with LL ( I lengthened 6.5 external fixation device. actually am doing correction now) from my experience pain comes and goes at almost every spot on the body. Do you have any swelling at that spot? redness? or anything like that? do you take any pain medications? how much do you walk per day? of course you are still using crutches?

Thanks Frost for tour reply. I take painkiller the less possible. Let's say when the pain starts at this right leg but in general the pain is so strong that the pain killer has no effect. Only diclofenac can reduce it. When I move less I don't have that pain so now I don't walk. Next week I meet my doctors and we will see what's going on and how to manage it. Hope it's not very bad thing.

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Quote from: Penguinn on February 03, 2018, 05:57:14 PMI had sort of a very slight shatter like break on the left femur but it healed totally fine because bone wasn't lost. Your alignment seems good too and if there's callus, it shouldn't matter how clean the cut was. This is purely based off second hand knowledge, I'm no doctor.

Also do NOT do 11.5cms on your tibias. There's no way you come out of that close to normal, and your proportions are going to look downright comical.
Thanks Penguinn for your reply. I will limit myself to 6.5cm only. I don't want to do gastrocnemius surgery and I don't want long term side effect of LL. I hope 6.5 is a real safe limit. But now I have lost 35° of knee bent so I think things are going wrong for me... :-(

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Thanks Frost for tour reply. I take painkiller the less possible. Let's say when the pain starts at this right leg but in general the pain is so strong that the pain killer has no effect. Only diclofenac can reduce it. When I move less I don't have that pain so now I don't walk. Next week I meet my doctors and we will see what's going on and how to manage it. Hope it's not very bad thing.

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Quote from: jackson5 on February 04, 2018, 11:12:25 AMThanks Penguinn for your reply. I will limit myself to 6.5cm only. I don't want to do gastrocnemius surgery and I don't want long term side effect of LL. I hope 6.5 is a real safe limit. But now I have lost 35° of knee bent so I think things are going wrong for me... :-(

5cm is the quoted "safe" limit for tibial LL. Don't go over that if you want to stay relatively safe (nothing in LL is entirely safe; you just increase the chances of problems happening a lot more by lengthening more). Stop sooner too if you are getting problems and your doctor thinks it's better to.

I personally wouldn't do more than 5cm in my tibias and 6.5cm in my femurs. I wouldn't want to risk so much for an extra centimeter.

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Quote from: myloginacct on February 04, 2018, 12:35:44 PM5cm is the quoted "safe" limit for tibial LL. Don't go over that if you want to stay relatively safe (nothing in LL is entirely safe; you just increase the chances of problems happening a lot more by lengthening more). Stop sooner too if you are getting problems and your doctor thinks it's better to.

I personally wouldn't do more than 5cm in my tibias and 6.5cm in my femurs. I wouldn't want to risk so much for an extra centimeter.

I got it. But all these pains for only 5cm is that OK?

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Hello guys, I told you I have serious knee bent so I decided to come back to Germany. Now I'm doing exercises. But when I try to straighten my legs I feel huge pain at the medial collateral ligament. I want that my doctors do an MRI to see what's really going on...
I will appreciate your feedbacks.

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How have you been doing?

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I'm curious too. As the Jackson 5 once sang... I want you back!

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Hello Jack how are you doing ? hope  you doing good  any news ? how is your knee ? keep up update