Questioning doctors promotion of 8cm in femurs and 90% recovery.

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I feel like over the last couple of years doctors have been changing what is considered a safe lengthening amount. I feel like percentage of the original bone amount was more emphasized than it is now(I forget the amount, I think it was 15%=safe). Now every doctor I hear says “most patients Can achieve 8cm”. This makes me wonder if the doctors are promoting this length because it sells better. Ya, most can get the 8cm but what’s the recovery rate? Maybe we just have more info that this length is okay now? How much are doctors factoring in the long term health of patients while promoting this length?

Next, I’ve seen a couple of posts recently discussing this exact thing. I’ve lost faith in the idea that you can fully or almost fully recover from this surgery. I hear “90%” or “you lose some peak athletic performance”. I don’t know what I think the recovery is like long term, I think almost no one does. There is so little info on this, mostly just speculation and what the doctors who are selling this surgery say. If we’re to guess the 90% recovery is more based around those that do that 15% of original femur bone length rather than these flat numbers like “8cm femur”.

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The vast majority of of LLers disappear or stop updating recovery after consolidation. Obviously this is expected but it gives an incomplete picture.