I’ve always wondered this.
Is the pain constant?
Or when they perform basic things like walking, sitting, laying down?
Or only when doing things like squatting, kneeling on hard surfaces etc?
Quote from: burntsmores on July 21, 2022, 09:28:58 PMChronic in medicine just refers to long-lasting pain. The exact timeframe is contingent on what exactly the pain is, but 12+ weeks tends to be an accepted timeline. In the context of leg lengthening, the procedure changes your biomechanics and may introduce a greater degree of load to joints. This increased load will start to affect the surrounding soft tissue, such as the patellar tendon (tendon of the knee-cap). It's kind of like a rubberband being constantly stretched by this new load, it starts to fatigue with time. Hopefully with time your soft tissues adapt and the pain resolves, but in cases of extensive lengthening the load is too great and you have to limit load (less running, weightlifting, whatever) in order to not overload the tendons.
Hey thank you so much. I did LON tibia. I wanted to do 5cm but only ended up lengthening maybe 1cm. I had to stop because of personal reasons. My first surgery was on the 9th june , and frame removed on 22nd June.
I am currently 6 weeks post op and in a lot of pain. My knees hurt a lot (the patellar tendon) and calves hurt like crazy when standing up. I am walking 1 hour a day with a walker. Pain pain pain. Dr used a transpatellar approach for the surgery.
I am not healing fast. I thought because I only done 1cm, I wouldn’t be in any pain. But that’s not the case.
I’m just scared of developing any sort of chronic knee pain. I really don’t want that.
And my calves hurt like hell.
What advice do you have for me ?
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