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By the way, I am not referring to complications.
The biggest cons people always use againts limb lengthening is that you "break your legs".
Why this is true, isn't this better than an average broken leg (severe)? It's a clean break and monitored by doctors. Student athletes in high school break their leg and still come back to play a year later.
Also, there is no reason the bone should be weaker. Online it says the new bone is just as strong as the old bone.
Assuming you exercise your muscles and perform physical therapy (maybe even go on some sort of cycle), you would be at full strength after some time right?
Then again, there are videos of limb lengthening patients running like retards (also extremely slow) after surgery. Which makes me wonder why? What went wrong?
The only thing that would keep you from maybe reaching your full athletic potential would be maybe not being used to your new proportions (not used to running with long legs). Or maybe they didn't do their physical therapy correctly. Or maybe they're too old to heal well, or maybe they were never athletic to begin with.
Maybe having your legs broken for months as apposed to normal leg breaks makes recovery more difficult? Would a professional athlete recover better?
Maybe it's similar to surgeries such as acl surgery where they used to be more difficult to recover from but now athletes can go back to 100% after recovery.
Thoughts?
The biggest cons people always use againts limb lengthening is that you "break your legs".
Why this is true, isn't this better than an average broken leg (severe)? It's a clean break and monitored by doctors. Student athletes in high school break their leg and still come back to play a year later.
Also, there is no reason the bone should be weaker. Online it says the new bone is just as strong as the old bone.
Assuming you exercise your muscles and perform physical therapy (maybe even go on some sort of cycle), you would be at full strength after some time right?
Then again, there are videos of limb lengthening patients running like retards (also extremely slow) after surgery. Which makes me wonder why? What went wrong?
The only thing that would keep you from maybe reaching your full athletic potential would be maybe not being used to your new proportions (not used to running with long legs). Or maybe they didn't do their physical therapy correctly. Or maybe they're too old to heal well, or maybe they were never athletic to begin with.
Maybe having your legs broken for months as apposed to normal leg breaks makes recovery more difficult? Would a professional athlete recover better?
Maybe it's similar to surgeries such as acl surgery where they used to be more difficult to recover from but now athletes can go back to 100% after recovery.
Thoughts?