thank you for your answer.
I'm considering Russia too, guichet is too expensive, but i would love to do limb lenghtening with him since i'm french.
According to you what is the limit that must not be exceeded with tibial?
Did do you practice sport before?Do you think you will be able to resume sport like before LL?
I m reading your diary, and i think i will only consider 3 cm now, imo lenghtening more than 4 cm on your tibial is not a good idea, unless you did or consider femur.
From all the info ive seen on this, based on others diaries and surgeon comments, I think in general you should not exceed 6 cm on tibias. It ultimately depends on the original bone length of the patients tibias, i think the safe limit was said to be 15% or 20% increase of original bone length, but in most cases it seems big problems arise after 6 cm.
Also even if you have no complications over 6 cm, at this point im fairly confident that the difference will feel substantial compared to pre LL, it might not necessarily feel "worse" but im sure it will feel very different in terms of mechanics.
I dont think there is much difference doing 3 or 4 cm, in terms of how you recover ultimately, but for sure the less you lengthen the faster you will recover, and with 3 cm the difference compared to pre surgery should barely feel noticeable at all imo.
I did do sports before, football and some mma, but i didnt compete at a high level in either of them. Mainly because i never put all my attention to them, they where always just a side hobby for me while i focused on education and social stuff as i got older.
Im sure i will easily be able to reach that same level even after LL, to be honest with a small increase like i did, i only think you will notice any loss of athleticism at very high levels, like Sweden and his Taek wondo. So if you are a competing at a very high level in some sport i think you might notice some loss of ability, but i dont think it would be as big of a loss as you would expect.
But at the highest level its the small things that make the difference so i guess even a 1% loss of athleticism could change your career for the worse.