Your opinions?

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Hi everyone, I am planning to get 5 cm in height. I would like to ask your opinion about the best way to gaining them.

I was originally planning to do the surgery with stryde, but then it got recalled due to its biocompatibility issues.


1) Doing Precice in femurs seems to be an option, but I really don't like the fact that it won't be weight bearing, and be very restricting for possibly multiple months. However it is an internal method, and possible safer than external methods.

2) The other option would be LON on tibias, which is cheaper, and theoretically weight bearing. I would have to have the external fixators on me for about 2 months (for 5 cm lengthening) and then I would take them out, and would mostly be able to walk normally? Is that possible?


What do you think? In terms of better recovery and getting faster back to normal life?

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on March 24, 2021, 06:28:57 PMIf you're skinny you might be under the weight limit for Precise.  So it could be weight bearing.

As far as I remember the limit was something like 30kg, not realistic. I'm 63.5 kg.

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Quote from: Jamesy998 on March 24, 2021, 03:22:50 PMYes, tibias are the best way to go in my opinion. You will not be waking straight out the gate though after the external fixation removal. Calculate more like 8 weeks or so after removal. Precise femur is not worth it for 5cm unless your femurs look extremely short in comparison to your tibias.

Thanks, didn't know about those 8 extra weeks.