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theuprising

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For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« on: December 29, 2014, 03:29:44 AM »

What is your lengthening method of choice and why?
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2014, 03:33:22 AM »

Guichet nail - mostly due to what happens after the surgery rather than what happens during it.
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2014, 03:44:50 AM »

External mostly because of money and the fact that I'll need it for internal femurs. About 20% of it because the supposed knee problems that's arise with internal tibs.
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2014, 07:40:44 AM »

Guichet nail - mostly due to what happens after the surgery rather than what happens during it.

Can you afford Guichet? If so your lucky! Don't think I'll be able to do surgery with him.
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2014, 07:45:24 AM »

I've yet to be able to see a reason for doing internal tibs when exfix is safer and there's LON for those who can't do the frame time of exfix.
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2014, 08:00:23 AM »

I've yet to be able to see a reason for doing internal tibs when exfix is safer and there's LON for those who can't do the frame time of exfix.
I think Precice is reliable from what I've heard. The Betz bone and ISKD sound more like a marketing scheme than a reliable way to increase height. I think it's because the pain with Ilizarov and maybe LON is barberic.
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Starting height: 185.5cms Goal/ dream height:190-193cms!
Sitting height:94 cms Arm Length: 86.5 cms 
Leg length:104 cms Arm Span:191 cms
Tibia: 48 cms Femurs:55cms

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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2014, 08:00:58 AM »

I've yet to be able to see a reason for doing internal tibs when exfix is safer and there's LON for those who can't do the frame time of exfix.
because if paley does it primarily then all of a sudden its the best method
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2014, 08:03:18 AM »

I'll take barbaric over an immense hole in my femur savings account. I think if you plan on getting femurs done it makes much more sense to do external tibias. Also if you want femurs you won't have that much pain because you won't need to lengthen that much.
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2014, 08:12:22 AM »

I think it's because the pain with Ilizarov and maybe LON is barberic.

I'm not so sure how much of a difference there would be in pain between exfix and internal when considering tibia lengthening. Of course I had pain from the pin sites at times, but the majority of the pain felt like it was coming from inside the leg due to soft tissue stretching. I've seen some people call Ilizarov frames barbaric, but are internals that much different in terms of minimizing pain? To me it seems like the difference is exaggerated.
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Re: For those doing Tibia Lengthening
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2014, 08:15:08 AM »

I'm not so sure how much of a difference there would be in pain between exfix and internal when considering tibia lengthening. Of course I had pain from the pin sites at times, but the majority of the pain felt like it was coming from inside the leg due to soft tissue stretching. I've seen some people call Ilizarov frames barbaric, but are internals that much different in terms of minimizing pain? To me it seems like the difference is exaggerated.

There's no word that can be used to describe the pain. The only way one would know is to go through the surgery. old forum  is just trying to make it sound like internals are less painful and safer when all they do is break or bend. I think LON is probably less painful than Ilizarov though. But when I watched LL on the news from old forum , it seemed like Akash (The 5'0" tall guy) pain was from the muscle stiffness. That's why PT was massaging that deep tissue. It takes long for muscle to regenerate than bone.
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Starting height: 185.5cms Goal/ dream height:190-193cms!
Sitting height:94 cms Arm Length: 86.5 cms 
Leg length:104 cms Arm Span:191 cms
Tibia: 48 cms Femurs:55cms
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