i am planning to get my femurs lengthened by 7 cm this december. but i have a mild discrepancy of 1.5cm to start with. one of my legs is shorted than the other by 1.5cm.
if i lengthen my shorter leg by 7cm and my longer leg by 5.5cm (5.5 because 7 - 1.5 = 5.5) and make them equal, am i 7cm taller or am i 5.5cm taller?
Quote from: nice weather on August 02, 2021, 06:15:20 AMi am planning to get my femurs lengthened by 7 cm this december. but i have a mild discrepancy of 1.5cm to start with. one of my legs is shorted than the other by 1.5cm.
if i lengthen my shorter leg by 7cm and my longer leg by 5.5cm (5.5 because 7 - 1.5 = 5.5) and make them equal, am i 7cm taller or am i 5.5cm taller?
That's a good one. I'd go with 5.5cm taller (?)
I’d guess somewhere in between. For all you know your body probably has adjusted to it with hip swing, scoliosis, posture, etc. so it’s not as though you’ll be 7cm taller since the bigger leg is probably swung up through the spine (a guess, could also be hip swing, or maybe no compensation at all) but not 5.5 since the smaller leg can’t touch the ground at the same time simultaneously with the other right now I’d imagine.
So if I had to guess with no XRays etc, maybe 6ish or 6.5ish overall height.
thanks for the opinions.
let us exaggerate the situation: one leg is 1 foot longer than the other, but no scoliosis.
when i stand with both my feet comfortably resting on the floor, my longer foot gives me no additional height. so my height is determined by the shorter foot.
when i walk, when my shorter foot is on the floor, i am short. when my longer foot is on the floor, i am tall. so it roughly fluctuates between the two.
as hobbitman said, there would be other factors like hip swing, posture which come into picture. so yeah 6-6.5cm gain sounds about right.
Similar situation to me but I got 1 cm in femur. So I intend to either do 7 cm in normal segment and 8 cm In the other segment, or 6 cm then 7 cm. You can LL and fix the discrepancy at the same time your doc will account for it.
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