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[ItsMyLife]

Hi All

I want to develop my vertical jump further (now its pretty bad) once I recover, for basketball.

Do you think its better for me to stop shorter?

I am 174+ cm in the first few hours of waking up,, to about 173.5-174 in the afternoon, and my height stabilises to 173 at the end of the day.

If I lengthen 9 cm to become 183 cm, would I be able to regain my athletic abilities and even develop further? With plyometrics and strength training?

Or would it be advisable to stop at 7 cm or 8 cm? (181-182 cm).

I mean, does that 1-2 cm make a hell of a difference in FINAL athletic abilities??

[123]

Hi All

I want to develop my vertical jump further (now its pretty bad) once I recover, for basketball.

Do you think its better for me to stop shorter?

I am 174+ cm in the first few hours of waking up,, to about 173.5-174 in the afternoon, and my height stabilises to 173 at the end of the day.

If I lengthen 9 cm to become 183 cm, would I be able to regain my athletic abilities and even develop further? With plyometrics and strength training?

Or would it be advisable to stop at 7 cm or 8 cm? (181-182 cm).

I mean, does that 1-2 cm make a hell of a difference in FINAL athletic abilities??

I don't know what you want to do (external/internal or tibia/femur). But if you go for tibia external you should stop at 6cm.

[Uppland]

Every centimeter counts more than you think. I haven't done the surgery and I'm not an expert but I had the same concern as you. Been reading up on recovery and post-op athletic ability -it's not an uplifting read.

If you want to regain close to normal athletic performance (because you will never be quite the same) I recommend you lenghten no more than 5 cm. That said everyones body is different and some can manage more, you won't know until you already have lenghtened a bit. It's possible to gain 9 cm with relatively low risk if you do two surgeries. One tibia (4cm) and one femur (5cm) that way you'll also keep a natural ratio between the bones.

Remeber that 9 cm, although it doesn't seem much when you look at a ruler, is alot when it comes to body size. A 9 cm increase will make your arms look shorter, your shoulders more narrow and your torso much smaller. Study your proportions and determine what is best for you.

Good luck and welcome to the forum.

[ItsMyLife]

Every centimeter counts more than you think. I haven't done the surgery and I'm not an expert but I had the same concern as you. Been reading up on recovery and post-op athletic ability -it's not an uplifting read.

If you want to regain close to normal athletic performance (because you will never be quite the same) I recommend you lenghten no more than 5 cm. That said everyones body is different and some can manage more, you won't know until you already have lenghtened a bit. It's possible to gain 9 cm with relatively low risk if you do two surgeries. One tibia (4cm) and one femur (5cm) that way you'll also keep a natural ratio between the bones.

Remeber that 9 cm, although it doesn't seem much when you look at a ruler, is alot when it comes to body size. A 9 cm increase will make your arms look shorter, your shoulders more narrow and your torso much smaller. Study your proportions and determine what is best for you.

Good luck and welcome to the forum.

Its proven that if you have a short femur, you can jump higher...

So I want to keep a short femur as much as I can..

Since I am just 25 and I take good care of myself (Body fat 14% or lower) work out regularly, and in fact I look below 20, do you think the odds are in my favour?

I was thinking of doing humerus lengthening to balance everything out.

[Dick Dastardly]

It's easy from an outside perspective to say you're going to lengthen x amount of cm and follow it with x amount of cm on the other segment and x amount of cm on your arms. But from patient feedback it's almost a guarantee that you'll do lengthening once, shorten your goal midway through the lengthening because of the pain, and then never look back at lengthening again after the first one.

[Uppland]

Its proven that if you have a short femur, you can jump higher...

So I want to keep a short femur as much as I can..

Since I am just 25 and I take good care of myself (Body fat 14% or lower) work out regularly, and in fact I look below 20, do you think the odds are in my favour?

I was thinking of doing humerus lengthening to balance everything out.

Sure the odds may very well be. What really counts isn't your body fat but the muscles and other soft tissue in your legs. It's imporant to prepare by stretching the leg you want to lenghten for at least a few months before surgery and even more important to keep that up as you lenghten -that's easier said than done. If you do everything right you will probably have a decent recovery but you will not be exactly the same afterwards -never mind better in any pysical way.

No it's not an advantage to have tibias longer than femurs that will create problems when walking, runing and jumping. You need to keep a ratio that is as natural as possible otherwise the legs motor functions will not function normally.

Think of ll as a trade-off you lose some athletic ability/agility but gain some height.

[TomD]

It's easy from an outside perspective to say you're going to lengthen x amount of cm and follow it with x amount of cm on the other segment and x amount of cm on your arms. But from patient feedback it's almost a guarantee that you'll do lengthening once, shorten your goal midway through the lengthening because of the pain, and then never look back at lengthening again after the first one.

This is not the information I have received from patients.

[123]

This is not the information I have received from patients.

That's strange. If I knew how long and painful this going to be I would probably have never done it out of fear. I think every LL-patient is more than happy after the procedure is done and you have to be either brave or dumb to do that again in my opinion.