Hi everyone, I am in the middle of lengthening my femurs using LON method here in Turkey. I am slightly worried regarding the amount of pain in the knees and the xrays. I will attach my latest xrays which were taken about a week ago (2.5 cm at the time), right now I am about 2.8 cm and having lots of knee pains and I am unable to completely extend my legs. I have been told this was due to hamstrings being tight but it doesn't feel like a muscle issue, its physically impossible to extend all the way without knee pain. I am also having lots of pain in the knees while walking.As you can see in the x-ray of the right leg there seems to be a slight misalighnemnt and its obvious that its due to poor technique during surgery. there is also a slight misalignment in the left leg but it's much less. Doctors says its normal and will straighten out as I lengthen but I can not see how that will happen as the bottom bone is bonded by the screws and it will be physically impossible to align. I am almost in panic mode, but I don't know what to do. Doctor is saying everything looks normal but truthfully I don't know how much I can trust him because he is relatively young and doesn't have much experience in LL. I am thinking to schedule an online consultation with Dr. Dimitrios Giotikas but the soonest is Feb 22 which is 10 days from now, BTW I am currently in Turkey for the lengthening process and plan to stay here until I can walk normal again. if anyone has any experience with this please share what you think and I would really appreciate it.
Xrays:
Right : https://imgur.com/a/8JpU2jU
Left: https://imgur.com/a/yMIUTki
I tried doing this (this is also part of pt) it actually increases knee pain but its bearable. I did it for few minutes it did improve stretching a bit, but I still can stretch all the way, about 10 degrees off from complete extension. have you looked at the xrays? what do you think ?
I can handle the pain if I am sure my bones are fine and the surgery was done correctly. Right now my biggest concern is the surgeon's lack of experience and the fact that my right leg does not look completely aligned like the left.
the knee pain fluctuates throughout the day it's worse at night. and also it gets a lot worse during physical therapy.
I asked the doctor today he said to lengthen two time per day for 3 days and then continue with four times per day. Let's see if the knee pain drops a little. The knee pain is so much worse today than it was any other day beside the first week after surgery.
Do you mean the right leg is worse? Left leg xray looks more aligned to me. Which problems will be caused by joints space being reduced ?
The space wasn't narrow before I started lengthening, it narrowed once I started lengthening. Check out my xray right after the surgery the space seemed normal. How to fix this??? Dr doesn't seem to care and keeps saying everything is OK. Will he be able to fix the misalignment once he removes the device, wouldn't it be too late at that point since bone will already have consolidated and connected ??
https://imgur.com/a/twJinkL
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