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[Morgenst.]

I've been asking myself this for a while. Half the guys on here either want to do do surgeries or one going for 7 to 8cm. But I want an overall increase of at least 12cm. Recovery wise is that really that insane a plan or is it possible to accomplish with the right spacing between surgeries and proper recovery time?

What I've taken away from what I've read here is that for tibias 6cm and under is relatively safe. What if I added 6-7cm through internal femurs to that a few years after tibias? With the right doctor, nutrition, rehab etc is it doable? Please don't give me any of the one surgery I'll be good stuff guys.

Stats: I'm 5'3.
Arm Span: 5'7
SH: 82cm

[Medium Drink Of Water]

6cm on each segment (or 5 and 7) is not crazy at all.

[Uppland]

Recovery wise it will be a long and difficult struggle but in the long term it might make more sense considering your biomechanics.

Your femur and tibia bones should stay within a certain ratio to function properly.

[spiderman]

Its crazy. According to my doctor, don't even do it. If you do it, do only one segment. The soft tissue stretch is too much for the body to handle and you risk being crippled forever.

[greatheight]

Recovery wise it will be a long and difficult struggle but in the long term it might make more sense considering your biomechanics.

Your femur and tibia bones should stay within a certain ratio to function properly.

Uppland is telling the truth. YEah

[Morgenst.]

What is the ratio however, is it 15% of your orginal length?
Who's your doctor SpiderMan? What I dorm understand is why is it crazy. Seems to me if external tibias are done first. Then internal femurs a few years later. It doesn't seem so radical to me. Don't get me wrong I'm more than open to lowering my goals and only doing 5cm femurs.

[Samuimw]

Hello there Herron52 , you are as the same height as me 5'3 and I also have a hard decision how to lengthen my legs. What I'm thinking of is I want to lengthen my tibias 8 Cm and later lengthen the femurs after about 3Cm or 4Cm or I just should do 5 Cm on my tibias and femurs 5 Cm later but it may take a long time to do LL on my femurs . Only 5Cm on tibias with my height 5'3 will not make me happy. I know that I can do cross-elongation of femurs and lower legs but I can't afford the second step until I can save all the money again, It may take a long time. So can anybody help me what I should do? Is it ok to lengthen 8 Cm tibias and 3-4Cm on the femurs after?
{sorry for my bad English}

[DoctorGirl]

Two surgeries can possibly cripple you from life, and this is from a medical doctor.

[DoctorGirl]

To qualify my sentence, I mean to lengthen serially without at least 6 months to one year in between to rest. And this has the support of Dr Guichet from France. It is his belief that you should rest and learn to walk after Surgery 1 before going for Surgery 2, for safety sake.

[Morgenst.]

Of course. I mean to do have the surgeries (if ever) years apart from each other. My question is by doing that and keeping the lengthening to a relatively safe number isn't it doable?