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SpeedDialer

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Do any doctors recommend internal tibia over external tibia?
« on: November 23, 2020, 06:31:51 PM »

This forum seems to think that internal tibia is too risky because they drill through your knee -> possibly 10-15% chance of chronic knee pain developing? Is that right? What do the doctors think, and why do they keep allowing internal tibia then?

What do the doctors think? Does Paley recommend doing internal tibia over external tibia?

Let's say you don't care about the scars because you are going to conceal the tibia scars with a tattoo
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Re: Do any doctors recommend internal tibia over external tibia?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2020, 06:58:00 PM »

The comfort of internal Tibia is way too good to revert back to externals. Quality of life while lengthening is way better. Every doctor recommended internal over external. Almost every

Paley doesn't even do externals for CLL, and even LL now for infants he has plates that can be used internally for like 2 year olds.

The knee pain is probably just due to how they put the rod in through the knees and stuff. It probably gets better with rehab and time
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Re: Do any doctors recommend internal tibia over external tibia?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2020, 09:10:46 PM »

The knee pain is probably just due to how they put the rod in through the knees and stuff. It probably gets better with rehab and time

to add to that most of the literature is for trauma so elective procedures may have better outcomes
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Bilateral tibia lengthening with Dr Gdalevitch 02/2023
starting height approx 167cm ( morning height)
gained  55.55mm
End height approx just shy of 5 foot 8 ( morning height)
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