VERY FERST STEP - INDIA - Dr. Anil Raheja

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Diso, where did you get those pics froms? Cool shiny thingymajig. They look comfortable on the legs. The Indian Monorail looks large and heavy.

Btw, you're going to remove the frames but will continue to be in india. Best of luck.

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Hey Diso,

Here's an exercise that I do regularly, it might help with ballerina, I do it whenever I am in bed while watching TV. 

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Quote from: Sweatpants on March 14, 2014, 04:41:47 PMHey Diso,

Here's an exercise that I do regularly, it might help with ballerina, I do it whenever I am in bed while watching TV. 

yes but you must sleep with your feet in this position, you must spend hours with your feet in this position not minutes((((( pretty  much your feet must be in this position all day!!! what you can do is use bandages, and make a knot on your tights and another knot with the bandage holding your feet at 90degrees like this picture. and then tight them together. I spend about 12 hours a day with my feet in this position, if im not walking, i eat, rest and sleep with my feet like this, you must do the same.

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It works better if you press your foot against the wall or floor.

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Quote from: BullSurfer on March 14, 2014, 04:52:22 PMIt works better if you press your foot against the wall or floor.

all depends how bad is her ballerina, if is very bad, it wont work. Her muscles(heels) will push her back. but if it is not that bad then it might work.

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i found something for you, get this, it might help.

http://www.amazon.com/Pc-Plantar-Fasciitis-Relief-System/dp/B00414OLBU/ref=pd_sim_hpc_53?ie=UTF8&refRID=0YX4YQ6EE3F3C3YC3FGY

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There's a product for everything these days.

She only got 2 or 3 cm, how can it be so bad? At this rate she won't get far. Im over 5cm in before the problem surfaced. Im in pain but pushing on. I just need a few more mm b4 remove frames.

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I ve tried all kinds of splints, but the only ones that really work and keep your feet in 90degrees are the ones that look like boots

Those are mine:

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QuoteIm really worry about you, it is ashamed what is happening to you, because Ballerina and knee contractions are the most common and only real serious problems of lengthening.

while this is true, here is a post from a thread on old forum  where I posted a bunch of peer reviewed journal articles for external lengthening (lon).

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Herzenberg et al. [7] reported follow up ROM of 25 patients with extension contractures after femoral lengthening treated nonoperatively. The mean age of their patients was 20.2 years. Fifteen patients underwent femoral lengthening for atraumatic (congenital or developmental)
and 10 for posttraumatic shortening. The mean femoral lengthening was 6 cm (range, 3–15 cm). ROM decreased from 127 ± 16 to 37 ± 15 after femoral lengthening. All patients underwent daily aggressive physiotherapy. All but one patient achieved 90 knee flexion by 6 months after
frame removal and full recovery was seen during the course of 1 year after frame removal. Patients required very aggressive physical therapy during the course of 1 year to recover ROM of the knee. At final follow up, knee flexion was 122 ± 23.

Quoteso as you can see even with no quadroplasty they went from 127 degrees to----- 37 degrees to---------122 degrees
and that was 6 months after frame removal.

its obviously more risky than internal which has 0 complication for knee contracture but I think its not as dangerous as people say. this was the average result for 25 patients. pretty cool when you think about it

reduced knee contracture is expected for external lon but will return. however I have no idea about if you do both femur and tibia together.

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Hi all

18th - March,  3 days left   


Sweatpants

humm no he didn't seriously Indian PT know NO THING, so I stooped my sessions few months ago.. and right now I'm doing simple stretching exercises, not aggressive one since I really want to avoid any thing could cuz the pain in my pin site, and I do stretching exercise like the one you posted in pic ( sometime with the same pose in pic I tried to lift my leg and hold it for 1 min, I feel  in this way it stretching much more muscles , try it and you'll feel different< Also,  since you still in distraction phase if you felt much pain your tibia let someone to lift/rise your legs for you'll feel much better off course in this case you wont stretch any muscle but believe me you'll feel the pain goes down immediately  >  ) 

about the splints  I got mine like after month from starting lengthening and I wear it like 2-3 h per day not more some time I don't wear it at all, yours looks much better than mine ..
this is mine



Can your splint keep your feet goes beyond 90deg?


Bullsurfer

yes , it looks light comparing to Indian monorails, this is Mitkovic's monorail it was mentioned in the original post of Jungle..


RGKEY

thanks for your concern, right now I'm doing simple stretching exercise I know that won't help a lot, but I really wont to avoid any further pain.. but since I'll get my frame removed soon, I'll start (gradually) standing this will help my ballerina , my feet can reach 85-90 deg I guess, my dr said to not worry a lot about it I will gain my flexibility as soon as I start standing .. maybe he is taking it easy again (Indian mentality doctor, where everything is ok and you don't have to worry) but with 5cm lengthening I'm not suppose to have bad ballerina ..