PILI/CATAGNI LEG LENGTHENING 9 CM ACHIEVED. ITALIAN 8 MONTHS IN THIS JOURNEY

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Quote from: Espresso2132 on July 10, 2017, 11:18:20 AMPost surgery for the tendon lengthening... Was so painful, hard to explain... But after a week or so I got the hang of it. Started walking right afterwards and also started driving too. I mean  I sort of gained back my freedom because due the lengthening your forced to have literally the feet blocked at 90 degrees. But now I walk, i drive, i am content on how things moving forwards. I just can't wait for the full removal. It's been a crazy ride

Atl is a very bad surgery my friend.
I hope I prove wrong but you'll never feel your legs again the same. When you lengthen the tendon the tension of the triceps surae (at, gastrocnemius and soleus muscles) is way off and the muscles can't work normally. You'll always have a weakness in walking, your running will be very slow and your jumping will be minimal if could happen at all.

Right now I have major bf after my fix surgery but I prefer it 1000 times than the loose and weak feeling I had after atl.
I really hope your condition to be better but you should have avoided atl at all costs and stayed at 6-6.5 cm to have a great height and function completely normally.
After atl noone is even close to what he was before. Only shortening surgery could help after, nothing else, but it is a new major surgery that very few doctors do it.
Generally, people should avoid atl no matter what.

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Your the first person I came across speaking like this. Indeed I. Followed up what my doctor has said. This surgery has been exstiting for the past 30 years. Everything has improved. Obviously some react to it differently... Tried sending u a pic. I. Am actually driving right now. Smooth as hell, I know someone that didn't do the ATL, and now he is having issues. 80 % of people that due this surgery have to go through the ATL. Simply Cuz it's the greater good For a good result at the long term. Otherwise, trust me. If it was avoidable I would have done so. No pain no gain.

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Nowadays almost no respectable doctor performs atl for LL.
They just make the patient stop before he has massive bf and needs atl.
Also, the thing that in the past made a lot of atls doesn't mean anything as after they see how bad the results were in the patients power they made it only in extreme cases.
Nowadays doctors perform gastrocnemius recession to achieve better ankle rom but still they try to avoid it too and just stop patient before lengthening too much.
That's why we say to not go over 6-6.5 in tibias. 9cm is really a bad decision as your biomechanics are dramatically changed and im addition to atl, you will be lucky to walk completelly normal and for lomg distances.
Driving is absolutely nothing, walking, running amd jumping is where you need the power of at.

I really hope you will be the exception but all the people I know had terrible results. Crimsontide can support my words as he did it too.
I am saying all these to protect people from doing that surgery because if someone had told me all these before 5 years when I did it, I would have acoid it and had much better results and I wouldn't have done another surgery right now to fix it.
Long term results of atl is comoletely reduction of bf but also a permanent loose and weak walking and great reduction of athletic abilities.
I wish you are the exception but still most of the people who did it are not.

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Quote from: Body Builder on July 10, 2017, 12:17:26 PMNowadays almost no respectable doctor performs atl for LL.
They just make the patient stop before he has massive bf and needs atl.
Also, the thing that in the past made a lot of atls doesn't mean anything as after they see how bad the results were in the patients power they made it only in extreme cases.
Nowadays doctors perform gastrocnemius recession to achieve better ankle rom but still they try to avoid it too and just stop patient before lengthening too much.
That's why we say to not go over 6-6.5 in tibias. 9cm is really a bad decision as your biomechanics are dramatically changed and im addition to atl, you will be lucky to walk completelly normal and for lomg distances.
Driving is absolutely nothing, walking, running amd jumping is where you need the power of at.

I really hope you will be the exception but all the people I know had terrible results. Crimsontide can support my words as he did it too.
I am saying all these to protect people from doing that surgery because if someone had told me all these before 5 years when I did it, I would have acoid it and had much better results and I wouldn't have done another surgery right now to fix it.
Long term results of atl is comoletely reduction of bf but also a permanent loose and weak walking and great reduction of athletic abilities.
I wish you are the exception but still most of the people who did it are not.

The major problem going with Pili & Catagni is ATL indeed.They strongly believe doing this would make better your conditions.
However I'm inclined to agree with you Bodybuilder.Forgetting that you descrive in a very realistic and detailed way the problems with this operation, I read an article that was strongly against that.Maybe later I'll insert the link,editing this post.
However I've sent a PM to this guy for major explanation,I hope he will answer soon.