For those who have done limb lengthening and experienced similar pain before. What is the thing you can compare it to?
I need some equivalents of limb lengthening pain (ie what pain is most similar to).
If you had read my VERY detailed diary, you could already know the answer...
But I repeat here for you:
There are TWO MAIN DIFFERENT kind of pain.
First one is like any poli-traumatism. That means broken bones, cut muscle, holes and nails in bones, screws, etc
Second one is elongation pain, which is unique, non imagined by nature, because is artificial and forced... That happen because EVERYTHING is stretched in very short time... like muscles, tendons, vessels, fascias and ESPECIALLY nerves !
It is very hard to explain how is it, because, as I said, there is no compare.
Its a permanent and weird pain. If you stretch your legs and after 5 minutes try to flex it, you have a big pain and you have to do it very slow.
If your legs been flexed for a while and want to stretch them... you have again a big pain and you have to do it very slow.
This pain usually comes after 5 cm on femur and 3 cm on tibias, depending by previous elasticity you had...
Ofcourse, there is a third pain, the infection’s pain… but usually happen external, to LON and Ilizarov… and extremely rare inside-the-bone infection
Also, if the air or water is cold... you can feel instantly a sciatic nerve pain, which is really bad.
You're welcome !