Shall I do 6cm or 8cm?

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We also have many diaries of CLL patients on this website. I am one of them. As I lengthened 7cm on the femurs, I can tell you from personal experience that the more you lengthen, the more your range of motion (ROM) or flexibility will decrease. I don't need any scientific study to confirm this.

Of course, PT is essential and you can get most of your ROM back, but not at 100% pre-surgery levels. And ROM is much of your athletic ability.

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Another scientific study on tibia lengthening and athletic activity recovery.

Functional recovery of daily living and sports activities after cosmetic bilateral tibia lengthening
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00264-018-4159-5

Results
SARS and IKDC scores decreased at post-operative one year and improved significantly at post-operative two years. SARS and IKDC scores recovered similarly to pre-operative levels. Average patient self-reported ability scores at post-operative two years were 94.6 and 89.9 for daily living and light sports, respectively. However, the average score for moderate-to-strenuous sports was 68.1 and 39 patients (31.2%) recorded below average score for the moderate-to-strenuous sports.

Conclusions
Patients who had undergone bilateral cosmetic tibial lengthening may expect almost full recovery of daily and light sports activities at post-operativetwo years. However, several patients may feel some limitation in moderate-to-strenuous sports activities.

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Quote from: Masteryourlife on December 31, 2021, 08:39:30 PMThank you, do you hear any update in there about stryde return ?
Idk like general talks ?!

I haven’t heard of any update about stryde return. I’ll ask Dr Robbins next time if I remember.

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Quote from: HeightJourney2021 on December 31, 2021, 09:41:23 PMAnother scientific study on tibia lengthening and athletic activity recovery.

Functional recovery of daily living and sports activities after cosmetic bilateral tibia lengthening
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00264-018-4159-5

Results
SARS and IKDC scores decreased at post-operative one year and improved significantly at post-operative two years. SARS and IKDC scores recovered similarly to pre-operative levels. Average patient self-reported ability scores at post-operative two years were 94.6 and 89.9 for daily living and light sports, respectively. However, the average score for moderate-to-strenuous sports was 68.1 and 39 patients (31.2%) recorded below average score for the moderate-to-strenuous sports.

Conclusions
Patients who had undergone bilateral cosmetic tibial lengthening may expect almost full recovery of daily and light sports activities at post-operativetwo years. However, several patients may feel some limitation in moderate-to-strenuous sports activities.

I heavily suspect this is due to a change in biomechanics, honestly. If they lengthened the other segment to similar proportions more than likely these scores would heavily improve.