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[Spots]

Hello everyone

I'm 172/3cm tall and wanted to ask quickly if i should have the LL done on my femur or tibia proportion wise. The goal would be to gain 3-4cm or 5cm at max.

[ilovescience]

Hello everyone

I'm 172/3cm tall and wanted to ask quickly if i should have the LL done on my femur or tibia proportion wise. The goal would be to gain 3-4cm or 5cm at max.

Have you measured how long your femur/ tibia are? You have good height, that almost within the average height of American.

[Gg]

Tibia for that amount

[Spots]

My tibia is ~36cm and my femur ~38cm.

I tried to uplad an image but it won't let me.

[Gg]

Well you have to decide for yourself

[thaw1010]

My tibia is ~36cm and my femur ~38cm.

I tried to uplad an image but it won't let me.

Femur obviously, the ideal tibia/femur ratio is 0.8, yours is like .95. You would look MORE proportional post op, unless your wingspan is already short

[Spots]

Have you measured how long your femur/ tibia are? You have good height, that almost within the average height of American.

Yes I know, which is why I don't wanna go go over 5cm, with an increase of 4 i would already be 176cm and since I mainly wear sneakers with thick soles that would give me an extra 2-3cm . So almost 180cm with shoes with which I would be more than happy.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Did you measure your femur/tibia yourself?  Most people get it wrong.

[Sambollio]

I’m pretty sure the only real way to measure accurately is through X-rays. Also limb lengthening is expensive, I’d always recommend the segment with the most height gain. I think the minimum increase in height to actually make any difference is 4cm.

[ReadRothbard]

There’s some videos on YouTube about how to properly measure tibias and femurs:

[Spots]

There’s some videos on YouTube about how to properly measure tibias and femurs:

Many thanks for the video, I measured again and I was quite off. The median for my tibia is 41cm and the median for my femur is 42cm. It's still not perfectly accurate but better than my last.

[SuchLL]

Do femurs if you have long tibias
Do tibias if you have long femurs
Do tibias if you have normal T/F ratio and you want to look taller

[pandemic_exploiter]

Femurs 100% brah. Buff em up and they'll look way sexier than long chicken leg tibias

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Femurs 100% brah. Buff em up and they'll look way sxxier than long chicken leg tibias

Gazelle legs > caterpillar legs.

[zaozari]

Hello everyone

I'm 172/3cm tall and wanted to ask quickly if i should have the LL done on my femur or tibia proportion wise. The goal would be to gain 3-4cm or 5cm at max.

Tibias, "of course", specially for that amount.
But I wouldn't do surgery for less than 5cm (and not more, in your case). You also have to do lots of physiotherapy to lenghten the Achilles tendon.

[ReadRothbard]

If you're simply interested in what's going to provide you the easiest, fastest recovery, then lengthen the femurs.

[AimHigh]

Apparently Calves and bicep should be same Circumference for max aesthetics, and Calves usually gain Circ. after Tib. LL .
My Calves are allready 3cm bigger than biceps, and my Biceps are my hardest gaining bodypart, so i am glad i Had femur CLL, even though orig T/F ratio was pretty close to 0.8.

[Spots]

Many thanks for all the feedback!

After reading through the replies, the forum and the internet I I would go with tibia, even if the healing process would take longer. After some input I do still need to decide if I'll go through with it since it's not a cheap and short procedure especially for such an arguably small increase in height. I'll definitely dig a bit deeper in to this!