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Limbfan2020

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Lengthening nails and knee pain
« on: December 11, 2022, 10:00:50 AM »

Hi,

is there a correlation between the type of lenghtening nail (Precice, G-nail, Betzbone) and knee pain when doing femurs?

cheers!
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LIVELIFETHEWAYIWANT

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Re: Lengthening nails and knee pain
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2022, 10:10:42 AM »

not likely getting knee pain from doing Femur , some sort of pain POST consolidation is there because of deconditioning . but it goes away .


Tibia is more prone to complications .
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Re: Lengthening nails and knee pain
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2022, 01:38:55 PM »

not likely getting knee pain from doing Femur , some sort of pain POST consolidation is there because of deconditioning . but it goes away .


Tibia is more prone to complications .

This is not true! A lot of people experience knee pain throughout the process when they lengthen their femurs.

The question is which of these nails can cause more knee pain.
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Re: Lengthening nails and knee pain
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2022, 03:08:36 PM »

This is not true! A lot of people experience knee pain throughout the process when they lengthen their femurs.

The question is which of these nails can cause more knee pain.
Any internal nail would cause more complications, especially on the knees, comparing to externals on tibias.

Also, any magnetic nail like precise is more safe compared to mechanic nails like g nail and betzbone which have a very painful and sometimes inaccurate way of lengthening with rotating clicks. But thet are full weightbearing which is a significant benefit.

I don't. hink that the differences would be major between internal nails. To avoid knee pain the most important is to not lengthen more than 8cm and to not have amy misalignment (which has to do with the doctor of course).
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