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[Jamesy998]

Hi fellow lengtheners,

This is just a general poll of sort to all the LON patients out there, tibia or femurs. How long did it take you to walk normally? No crutches, nothing like that.

Generally as I am lengthening in Turkey, I can say with full confidence that most patients here are walking normally without any support anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months post frame removal completely normally but I do occasionally come across a lot of people on the forum taking a lot longer than this. Maybe you can all share the experience, im curious to see if they are doing anything differently and if that is the reason for the delay.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

More than anything, it depends on how much you lengthen.  Second I think is a tie between your biology and how much stretching and exercise you do during lengthening.  That's why there's so much variance in the numbers.

[Jamesy998]

More than anything, it depends on how much you lengthen.  Second I think is a tie between your biology and how much stretching and exercise you do during lengthening.  That's why there's so much variance in the numbers.

Myself, I am not the most active patient when it comes to physio but I must say that in comparison with everyone else I have done a rather modest amount of lengthening in comparison of 6.5cm so hopefully everything will go by smooth.