What risks in real life compare to leg lengthening risks?

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Quote from: Want-3-inches on March 30, 2021, 04:32:21 PMWhat do you mean? The outcome of both can involve disability. Even with a good doctor LL can create disability. So it's fine to compare the odds of both. If you've done one before and didn't feel scared about it, then you can do the other (IF the probability of disability is similar). If you see someone on TV doing skiing and you know the risks of disability from skiing = risk of disability from LL then you can think 'oh my doing LL is like that guy doing skiing'.

Yes but it‘s not as linearly as just saying X has a risk of Y so it is comparable. in real life there are multiple factors. For example, in skiing you have your action under more control than in a car accident. If you ski without proper skill and knowledge you are more tend to accidents than if you are cautious. For car accidents, there are multiple factors too, most of which you have under control, but there are more unpredictable ones as well (encountering drunk drivers etc).. For LL however risks are way less under your control. Most of which is just up to the dr AND randomness (for example fat emboli etc).

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Quote from: RealLostSoul on March 30, 2021, 06:28:19 PMYes but it‘s not as linearly as just saying X has a risk of Y so it is comparable. in real life there are multiple factors. For example, in skiing you have your action under more control than in a car accident. If you ski without proper skill and knowledge you are more tend to accidents than if you are cautious. For car accidents, there are multiple factors too, most of which you have under control, but there are more unpredictable ones as well (encountering drunk drivers etc).. For LL however risks are way less under your control. Most of which is just up to the dr AND randomness (for example fat emboli etc).

It does not matter how much control you have. Statistics are statistics.

Think this way: let's say you have to play a game where you have to solve one easy puzzle in 1 minute. If you don't solve it correctly you get disabled, otherwise you become 3 inches taller. So you have FULL control over the outcome.

You start testing your abilities. You do a hundred of these tests in "practice" mode. You see that you can solve it correctly 99% of the times. So do you decide to take the real test or not?

It's similar with LL. If you Paley publishes a 1% chance of disability then it means the same thing I described above. Paley doesn't dislike you or like you more than his other patients. So your chance of success is similar to his other patients.

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It's very easy to analyze yourself out of this procedure.  I did it at the Paley Institute and it was a fantastic experience.  The ultimate question is...do you want to get taller, or not?  We can read papers and and crunch numbers, but at the end of the day, you just have to pull the trigger and go for it.  One thing I will say though, I am about 1.5 years post-surgery date, and getting back to normal takes way longer than expected.  Biomechanics, muscle atrophy, etc.  A select few on this forum will disagree with me no doubt, but I am going to say that to get back to normal it takes a couple of years.  If you think you're going to Crossfit and doing box jumps or doing your routine jogging 6-8 months after surgery...think again.