Limb Lengthening Forum

some guy already lengthen that much with limbplastix
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6zhv7lvn1E/

some guy already lengthen that much with limbplastix
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6zhv7lvn1E/

22,000

I sent you a dm

My bad, I read it as 99 instead of 89. 

So, your LBR is 0.514 right now which is already in the perfect zone. After 10 cm you won't be able to tuck in shirts but if you want to be that leggy it's fine, I just don't find it attractive on males and neither the majority of women according to studies. 0.50-0.51 is the perfect LBR for males.

BTW, Henry Cavill has normal trunk size but a little longer legs relative to trunk. He just have short arms and small hands and it's pretty much obvious to anyone with functioning eyes.

And maybe one more side note, my wingspan is 181cm. So maybe i am just one of those freaks 

Bother because i am in Germany, where the average is quite above my 173cm.
No, my tibias+femurs summed up are currently 89cm. I just said, in case i would lengthen 10cm, to reach the infamous 6 feet in total, i would be at 99cm legs. Which would result in a LBR of 0.54 by the way - which i found to be rated as still attractive, according to some studies, which i could link tomorrow after getting sleep hehe. I know, your argument is to focus on trunk vs legs, makes sense to me. Still, i dont wanna fall into the alien category, how some of you call it here
I guess i will just end up measuring more genetic freaks like Henry these days and then decide. I appreciate your input by the way!

tilli:

Dude, your legs are already fcking long relative to your total height. 99 / 173 = 0.57 so I can imagine how you look without clothes, LOL. Women should be jealous of you, not kidding.  I'm afraid LL is not for you and you already have an acceptable height so why bother?

Tibia should be about 80% of femur length, so in 45:55 ratio. For example, if my tibia to femur ratio is already 45:55, in order to get the same ratio post double LL of 11.5 cm total, I have to split that 11.5 cm into 45:55 ratio for tibia and femur, respectively. For tibia it is  5.2 cm and for femur it is 6.3 cm. For aesthetics and biomechanics point of view, it would be the best split if one already has 45:55 tib-femur ratio.

Yeah still i would have been interested in how you fount out about the 113cm norm? I cannot see that in the image you linked. Not even if i combine certain measurements - but you seem to be the better analyst of us both by far haha

This post is interesting to be since i know i am having a low sitting height of 87.5 with a height of 173. I know it is on the shorter side, if i multiply it by 2 it is 175 so from that perspective it sound ok.
However, if i follow your calculations, and i do have concrete measurements of my femur and tibias already, if i sum them up i am at 89cm already, before leg lengthening. You could even continue calculating the rest of your ratios, but already at this point it is clear that my legs are relatively long already, without LL.
All in all this makes me question if LL is the right thing for me.

I know there are famous people like Henry Cavill out there with crazy proportions, but i am wondering if they would be as extreme as mine.

Plus, this image seems pretty old, maybe even outdated? I don't know, when i look at the measurments of tibias and femur, it almost seems like the image is suggesting the tibias to be longer than the femur? Or is this an optical illusion - i did not measure it. Anyways, we all know that femur is almost always longer than tibias.

If i lengthened 10cm to get to 183 (6 feet), my legs would basically be 99cm long. This could look pretty much off. I mean, i am somewhat muscular and plan to get in shape even more afterwards, but still. I am not sure about that whole thing when thinking about these proportions.

After dozens of diaries I've read almost all patients complained that femur pain is so excruciating that it's not even comparable to tibia pain. It's scary to be honest.

I wonder what distraction feels like. I can imagine it but the actual experience would be very interesting to be honest. Also, I think that distraction on femurs has to be more painful due to large muscles surrounding the bone.

I'm not afraid of pain, what I'm afraid the most is bone infection. Other inconveniences can be dealt with much effort and discipline but bone infection is the scariest thing of LL there is.

Also, I'm kinda afraid of internal nailing. I know that doing femurs with pure external is a suicide so it's either LON or fully internal nails for femurs. Either way it involves nailing while you can avoid nails when doing tibia with Ilizarov or TSF.