Plzen's journey Precice II , bilateral femurs (South Africa, Dr. Birkholtz)

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Do you think 3 months is enough time to lengthen 7cms?

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ShortyMcshort,
If no complications then 90 days is enough time. South Africa gives visa by days, in my case 90 days visa.

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ShortyMcshort,
If no complications then 90 days is enough time. South Africa gives visa by days, in my case 90 days visa.

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Quote from: Plzen on January 04, 2015, 11:33:16 AMThanks for well wishes Axelf,

1- He did talk to me about possible increased risk of arthritis.

Can you expand a little bit on this please?

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Uppland,
I was too excited/nervous about surgery when he was talking to me (this was the day before surgery). He also talked about it during my first consultation, but that was about 4 months ago. I think I remember what he said, but I don't want to scare anyone by misquoting him.
I am meeting him next week. I will ask him again.

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@Uppland
The increased risk of arthritis is due to lengthening along the anatomical axis of the femurs which inevitably leads to a lateral shift in the mechanical axis. All internal nails in the femur lengthen along the anatomical axis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22933497
Dr.Birkholtz mentioned it here http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=137.msg6963#msg6963
However some people with pre-existing femoral malalignment may benefit from this lateral shift and reduce the chance of arthritis in the future.

@Plzen
You must be near the end of your distraction phase. I'm glad that you're are doing well.
Keep it up!

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TRS,
Thank you for well wishes, and for answering Uppland's question.

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Hi Pizen. Thanks for this diary.

Can you talk about the scar? If possible some photos.

I thought I saw scar photos of one of Dr Franz patients in old forum  (the one with failed Precice) and they're quite big.

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Mediocre,
There are six of them (scars) on each leg. Their size from biggest to smallest.
2.8cm,2cm,1.3cm,the other three are all less than 1cm.

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Ok. It sounds like they're small.

I don't know why Exile88 (old forum ) has big scars.