tibia longer than femur

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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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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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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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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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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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Yellospike defenitely has really long femurs, don't know what the ratio is but you an view it in his diary.

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oh right i thought Calic has equal lengths post op.