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[Gichelu]

If you are doing externals or LON/LATN do you think it is better for your healing if the doctor has more rings and pins on the device? For example I saw on the video for Dr. Elbatrawy here (http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=182.18) that he puts a lot of rings on his patients and it looks like it makes it more stable or allows you to do weight bearing much better because a patient of his was running with frames. I also know that a patient of Dr. Sarin had weak looking frames and his frame bent or something. Because of this I wonder why some doctors choose to do fewer rings and pins when adding more looks like it will be better for overall healing. What do you guys think?

[Medium Drink Of Water]

I think fewer is better.  I didn't have any problems with just 4 pins per leg in Beijing.  My frame never felt unstable and never bent/broke the whole time I was there, even the time it fell off the chair in the bathroom and crashed down on the floor at full force.  And the benefit is fewer scars.

[KiloKAHN]

Good thing to ask your doctor during a consultation. The only info about the subject I know is based on one of Dr Parihar's lectures that he put on his YT channel. He says that putting on a huge number of pins and wires doesn't necessarily give you stable fixation and that's there's such a thing as having 'too stable' of a frame, getting into the difference between stability and rigidity in a fixator. An interesting watch.




That's something I'll be asking the doctors during consultation because due to my weight I wonder how much weight bearing my frames can tolerate.