Precice has also been recalled

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Granted the same height, a shorter femur could make someone run faster than a longer femur, given the shorter range of motions, u can run faster with a short femur and a long tibia than a long femur and short tibia

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There is also a worldwide shipping hold of precise products according to that article, so the US could also be affected.

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Quote from: Jason125 on April 23, 2021, 09:37:03 AM

This Japanese man did LON a few years ago, still pretty active recently and doing well! You could take a look at his channel

this guy did cross or quadri with full externals?

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Please inform if some other surgeon gives an update about Precice

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Quote from: RealLostSoul on April 23, 2021, 11:52:22 AMthis guy did cross or quadri with full externals?

He did cross lengthening with LON externals (even on Femurs yes,) through two stages

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Ilizarov frames are full weight bearing, and I got zero pin infections.  It's not so bad.

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Next monday I have appointment whit Giotikas where he will evaluate my proportions. If doing tibia is feasible I will consider it, as I think my tibia is quite short and +5 cm would make good ratio. However, I'm quite sad to be honest. Height dysphoria has destroyed my life and I decided not to give up: 8 months ago I had no money, and I created my own business just to pay for this surgery, working like 15 hour per day. I finally got the money, and Stryde is out and now Precice too lol. Accomodation and fligths for June are also paid.

Anyway, my choice will depend on my proportions and on certainty about Precice comeback. If it's certain it will be back in late august, I can wait. If not... tibias here we go. I really felt much better about femurs, since 5 cm is quite safe for them.

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for a positive note, even though it doesnt mean much:
bad situation but
on the other hand you saved quite a bit of money and can potentially do a stryde in a year or two when it comes back. u can do 4cm tibias, work ur ass off and recover quickly, then work ur ass off in your job and recover financially quickly, stryde will be back and you do 6cm femurs a year or two later, maybe even work from home cuz stryde, maybe this is the long game and better

sry bro

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Quote from: Serilium on April 23, 2021, 02:45:04 PMfor a positive note, even though it doesnt mean much:
bad situation but
on the other hand you saved quite a bit of money and can potentially do a stryde in a year or two when it comes back. u can do 4cm tibias, work ur ass off and recover quickly, then work ur ass off in your job and recover financially quickly, stryde will be back and you do 6cm femurs a year or two later, maybe even work from home cuz stryde, maybe this is the long game and better

sry bro

Thanks for the encouragement man, but I am doing only one surgery. I'm happy with 5 real cm, don't need more. I also find it weird that no one has talked about this. In theory it happened weeks ago.

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Yeah, I don't know how we as a community missed this CE mark thingy.

Also, one honest opinion about 5cm LON tibias:

This is the most common surgery in South Korea- being the 5cm-6cm LON tibias. Donghoon Lee does LON dozens of time a year, since Koreans usually can't afford Precice/Stryde due to Nuvasive rods just charging so much. They all are really happy with the result.

They all look absolutely great and even look "taller" than they actually are afterwards, because the tibia is usually short. You will have very very good proportions. KiloKahn the moderator of this forum did 6cm LON tibias. He looks really good, you will look just as good if not better since knees won't be as high proportionally to the entire femur and leg length.

5cm LON is going to be great man. Honestly.