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Jean1

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Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« on: July 04, 2023, 06:06:52 PM »

If money isn't an issue, who would you choose between the Europe Paley Institute in Warsaw and Dr. Giotikas in Greece?

My goal is to get the full 8 cm in the femur and come back to 100% of my sport capacity after 12–18 months.

I'm an athlete already very flexible, but will prepare even better for the surgery.

Also, if you feel they are better options that those two in Europe, please let me know.
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2023, 06:28:08 PM »

Bro you’ll be lucky to walk up three floors of stairs unassisted 12-18 months after 8 cm femur. Forget about 100% sports recovery.
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2023, 06:40:42 PM »

Unrealistic to get a 100% recovery. 90-95% is more realistic
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2023, 10:13:55 PM »

Unrealistic to get a 100% recovery. 90-95% is more realistic

It might be unrealistic but possible. I am 14 month after my surgery and don’t have any restrictions anymore. I can run, jump and walk normally. I am only afraid of playing soccer or exercising with to much weight as long as my roods are still in but probably it might work as well.
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2023, 12:08:16 AM »

It might be unrealistic but possible. I am 14 month after my surgery and don’t have any restrictions anymore. I can run, jump and walk normally. I am only afraid of playing soccer or exercising with to much weight as long as my roods are still in but probably it might work as well.

Tl;dr

You are not 100%.

Report back in a year. Maybe you will be, maybe you won't be.

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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2023, 10:49:53 AM »

If money isn't an issue, who would you choose between the Europe Paley Institute in Warsaw and Dr. Giotikas in Greece?

My goal is to get the full 8 cm in the femur and come back to 100% of my sport capacity after 12–18 months.

I'm an athlete already very flexible, but will prepare even better for the surgery.

Also, if you feel they are better options that those two in Europe, please let me know.
If Paley doesn't operate on you or at least be in the surgery room, then it doesn't matter how.the imstitute is called to get you extra money.
Go for Giotikas. And of course don't expect to be 100% after LL no matter what you do. Moreover after even 18 months you would still have the internal rods inside your bones so you won't be even close to your potential which will still be about 90% after 8 cm.
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Jean1

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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2023, 02:15:46 PM »

Maybe my expectation are unrealistic on the recovery.

My real question is who is the safest doctor to go to in Europe?
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2023, 04:34:53 PM »

If money isn't an issue, who would you choose between the Europe Paley Institute in Warsaw and Dr. Giotikas in Greece?

My goal is to get the full 8 cm in the femur and come back to 100% of my sport capacity after 12–18 months.

I'm an athlete already very flexible, but will prepare even better for the surgery.

Also, if you feel they are better options that those two in Europe, please let me know.

Then its Dr. Giotikas because thats the WB option
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2023, 04:09:23 AM »

I’m thinking of choosing dr giotikas to do precice 2 on my tibias to get 5cm but i don’t think u would recover 100% since u r lengthening too much on one bone i read a lot of articles and all them said up to 5cm is a low risk and anything above have way more chance of complications and extra surgeries so that’s why i wanna get only 5cm and on my tibias cuz i like long tibias lol
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2023, 08:05:30 AM »

Choosing tibias over Femurs is simply stupid...

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=83916.0
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2023, 10:56:37 PM »

I’m thinking of choosing dr giotikas to do precice 2 on my tibias to get 5cm but i don’t think u would recover 100% since u r lengthening too much on one bone i read a lot of articles and all them said up to 5cm is a low risk and anything above have way more chance of complications and extra surgeries so that’s why i wanna get only 5cm and on my tibias cuz i like long tibias lol

Unless you have abnormally short tibias naturally, don’t do just tibias. Femurs are safer and will pose less complications.
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2023, 11:52:25 AM »

Have u already done the surgery ¿
Yeah i changed my mind I’m gonna do femur cuz i don’t wanna get arthritis lol
But only 5cm cuz dr paley says it’s safer and there would be way less chance of complications 
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Re: Paley European Institute VS Dr. Giotikas
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2023, 11:04:41 PM »

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Have u already done the surgery ¿
Yeah i changed my mind I’m gonna do femur cuz i don’t wanna get arthritis lol
But only 5cm cuz dr paley says it’s safer and there would be way less chance of complications 

Yeah, I already did 8cm on femurs and am currently consolidating. I had it pretty easy overall. No nerve pain. My right knee (and only my right knee) wasn’t able to fully straighten out once I got past the 6cm mark or so. However, a month after I finished lengthening, it’s almost back to being completely straightened out.

< 6cm on femur = low risk
6-8 cm on femur = medium risk
8+ cm on femur = high risk

Really though it comes down to lengthen and observe. As long as your legs are stretching well throughout the process, you can keep pushing further. Your surgeon / PT *should* stop you if they think you shouldn’t push further


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