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tibia longer than femur

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microman
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 3:24 am
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after reading mediums drink of waters comments on tibia length could equal femur, but not go over, i would like to know if anyone's tibia has gone longer than with LL femur and what exactly are the issues that come with that.

I only ask because i have really short legs so i can imagine having to choose between 4 or 5cm for my operation, and if more is required I'd have to do a 2nd operation.
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KrP1
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 8:37 am
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Yeah. Normal tibia/femur ratio is 0.8 . Tibia/femur rato could be at maxinum 1:0 . If it is longer mechanics willl be affected
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microman
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 11:03 am
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but wasn't it mentioned that some people such as basketballers have longer tibia than femur, how would they get by exactly.
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theuprising
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 11:07 am
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Quote from: microman on July 13, 2015, 11:03:50 AMbut wasn't it mentioned that some people such as basketballers have longer tibia than femur, how would they get by exactly.

That seems highly unlikely that they would have longer tibia than femur. Can you point to a source?
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microman
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 11:51 am
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oh right okay i read on the old forum that they could have longer tibia, but i to would like sources to back that up.
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Alittletooshort
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 1:59 pm
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No one has longer tibias than femurs, as long as he doesn't have some kind of disease.
I don't now what happens exactly If they get longer than your femurs but I'm sure your power transmission will be fked up afterwards.
Dr. Mitkovich will measure them and I'm sure that he'll tell you what's your upper limit will be.
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microman
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 3:01 pm
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ah yes of course I do have the tibia/femur ratio calculation, thanks for clearing that up that the longest my tibia could be is that is can match my femur.

given that the natural is 0.8, and the maximum could be 1.0, what exactly would change if you went from 0.8 to 1.0, I read running would be harder at 1.0, would anything else be harder to do.
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FutureLengthener
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 6:33 pm
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This is kind of the opposite of microman's question--but what if F/T ratio goes BELOW 0.8? Would that be as bad as going over 1.0, or would 0.75 be like the equally common, natural converse of 0.85? (i.e. both are a .05 deviation from the golden 0.8 ratio)
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FutureLengthener
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 6:34 pm
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And if anyone wants to tell stories about how they are pre-LL, PLEASE don't use home measurements. Even if you understand anatomy and where each bone actually ends its still hard to get accurate measurements without an XRay.
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microman
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Posted on Jul 13, 2015, 6:37 pm
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I would have guessed it would be fine, since many people do femurs only.

i have seen pictures of people with really long femurs, but haven't seen any of people with longer tibia than femurs, that at least sais something.
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