Precice 2.2 Recovery Time

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Quote from: ryand2021 on February 22, 2021, 06:44:52 AMWell I called them and they said that young people tend to recover much faster than average and I have a "good chance" for fast recovery as long as I keep up the PT exercises......lots of conflicting information.

Who did you call Ryan? I am in a similar boat: I wanted to do Stryde but the BS recall negates that plan. Now I want to try to do Precice2.2 and try to walk (with assistance) in the early Fall for school. I am fine walking very slowly or even using crutches but would prefer not to be in a wheelchair or using a walker.

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Also curious about this and in the same position. If surgery happens in March/April, as a thin, young patient, how long should we expect until we're walking normally? My doctor didn't make any mention of a wheelchair, said I would be using a walker for the first 3 months.

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Quote from: Arctic on February 23, 2021, 10:56:46 PMAlso curious about this and in the same position. If surgery happens in March/April, as a thin, young patient, how long should we expect until we're walking normally? My doctor didn't make any mention of a wheelchair, said I would be using a walker for the first 3 months.

About 7 months +

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Chatted with Paley and his staff. If everything goes well, I should be able to walk close to normally by August. However, it largely depends on exercises and physical therapy. Lack of exercises and stretching will significantly delay the process of healing.

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Paley always gives an optimistic picture. Ask him about stryde he will say it will be out soon. Ask him about precice he will say it's already available and you wiil be back walking by august.

The limiting factor for starting walking is bone consolidation. Lack of exercises and strething will hardly change when your bones will heal with precice.

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My guess is that with Precice 2 people tend to do less moving exercises because it's not weight bearing ---> soft tissues normalize must slower -----> still can't walk even after bones are consolidated -----> can't walk normally until soft tissues are back. I was also told that soft tissues are the ones typically cause trouble during the healing process. I'm not sure the differences between Precice 2 and Stryde in terms of bone healing speed, as I haven't seen any research article with direct comparison statistical analysis about it.

I'm quite optimistic that given my young and athletics background the bone itself will be done by the end of August (I'm actually worried more about pre-consolidation as I learned that speeding up lengthening may not be possible because soft tissues can't catch up, but without speeding up the bone will consolidate early ---> lengthening must stop early). However the soft tissues may recover much slower which will prevent me from walking normally even in October, after the bone consolidates.

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Quote from: las vegas baby on February 26, 2021, 06:31:29 AMPaley always gives an optimistic picture. Ask him about stryde he will say it will be out soon. Ask him about precice he will say it's already available and you wiil be back walking by august.

The limiting factor for starting walking is bone consolidation. Lack of exercises and strething will hardly change when your bones will heal with precice.

Has paley made a statement about when stryde will be back?

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Quote from: HeightGain on February 22, 2021, 09:23:37 AMThere are diaries on here of people walking 1 - 2 months after stopping lengthening.

LON patients here all have fast recovery times. 2 Months post frame removal walking normally.

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Time to provide a quick update here -

I successfully completed the process a few months ago and gained 8 cm. Now I can comfortably hike 2 miles at a time. Daily life routines are back to normal, except for sports.

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Any before after photos or videos?