Precice cancelled. Please advice for tibias

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Quote from: Serilium on April 23, 2021, 02:19:38 PMDon't worry about knee pain or sh*t like that. Just go for it and do LON.

And it'll take 10 months if you want to do 5cm FULLY externals (NOT LON), not 7 months,

so it's a good idea to do LON instead of externals. I am praying for you V21

I needed 11 months for 7,5cm.
For 5 months he'll need 7 months at max for pure externals. Don't say things far from truth.

Rimming your bone for removing externals 3-4 months sooner is a very bad decision for me, not only because of how harder the surgery is but because you'll need a second big surgery for nail removals (and extra money then) and of course knee pain is a reality for many that did it.

Its your choice but for only 5cm the pure externals is by far the best solution.

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How about considering betzbone? It's weight bearing and I plan on doing it if Stryde doesn't come back before EU reopens.

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Quote from: OnceADay on April 26, 2021, 03:09:59 AMHow about considering betzbone? It's weight bearing and I plan on doing it if Stryde doesn't come back before EU reopens.

Betzbone is overpriced trash

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Source?

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Quote from: OnceADay on April 26, 2021, 03:09:59 AMHow about considering betzbone? It's weight bearing and I plan on doing it if Stryde doesn't come back before EU reopens.

For femurs a reasonable choice. I may do the same. There are many good cases / diaries in the last years.

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Quote from: inchesmatter on April 26, 2021, 07:30:42 AMSource?

When it came out it was a good choice but now since stryde is out, they are the same price but stryde is way more reliable, betzbone had patients complain of the nail failing here and there

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I am a Betz patient and all the fellow patients I’ve spoken to have had only very positive experiences, me included. I would do it again with Betz.

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Quote from: inchesmatter on April 29, 2021, 10:23:10 AMI am a Betz patient and all the fellow patients I’ve spoken to have had only very positive experiences, me included. I would do it again with Betz.

Good for you!...I am sure that Betz and his nail will manage to "steal"  some very impatient patients whilst Stryde is off market, before he sinks back into oblivion when Stryde is back.

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Quote from: Arcon on April 29, 2021, 10:39:30 AMGood for you!...I am sure that Betz and his nail will manage to "steal"  some very impatient patients whilst Stryde is off market, before he sinks back into oblivion when Stryde is back.

What’s with the negative attitude? Stryde was a first choice for a lot of people but it’s not simply a case of being “impatient” when some of us had planned our entire lives and situations around stryde on a particular date only for it to be taken away. Betz provided a great alternative and is a way for us to adapt while stryde is off the market. So much undeducted opinions on this forum from people who have never done LL, nor ever will and can’t understand that waiting until 2022 when stryde is back to get rid of height neurosis isn’t a valid option for some of us. I have also had a positive experience with Betz and so have other patients I met in Germany who were back for nail removal. I wish people would speak with actual patients to form an opinion on a doctor rather than just echo the biased opinions on this forum that are based on cases from 5-10 years ago.

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Quote from: Activatedxx on April 26, 2021, 07:17:03 AMBetzbone is overpriced trash

Just where does this opinion come from?

People seem to think that Betzbone breaks, but I have not heard first hand accounts nor am I ware of the circumstances of the break. If someone went skiing with that nail in, it wouldn't come as much of a surprise, for instance.

You should also keep in mind that Stryde breaks and Precise breaks as well. That is all documented in studies:

Styde: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17453674.2021.1903278

"Unrelated to the scope of the study, but importantly, 2/30 femoral Stryde nails broke within 1 year after implantation (nail diameter: Ø11.5, Ø11.5; patient weight: 55 kg, 85 kg)."

It also causes lesions and pain.

Precise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253187/

"In the second case (loss of 10mm distraction) the nail broke shortly after the diagnosis and the nail was exchanged."

In addition to that Precise is not weight-bearing.

Betzbone does not have these problems. Now I don't mean to argue for one nail over the other, but it's important to keep in mind that there is no 100% safe way to do it and all nails come with advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion a statement like "Betzbone is overpriced trash" that is not supported by any evidence is irresponsible.

If you want to criticise something, then please do it, but also provide evidence and not rely solely on something you've heard somewhere.