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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: ReadRothbard on April 22, 2015, 05:36:50 AM

Title: Does leg lengthening lead to permanent muscular weakness?
Post by: ReadRothbard on April 22, 2015, 05:36:50 AM

 A question for the vets: can you get muscularly stronger than you were pre-ll?

Title: Re: Does leg lengthening lead to permanent muscular weakness?
Post by: ReadRothbard on April 22, 2015, 04:46:56 PM

Bump, bitches

Title: Re: Does leg lengthening lead to permanent muscular weakness?
Post by: Overdozer on April 22, 2015, 05:00:42 PM

I'm no LL vet yet, though I'm eventually going to be one. I can tell you that no, it doesn't lead to muscle weakness. In fact, my lengthened bone segments are actually bigger than their counterparts. Like, my lengthened tibia is bigger than my non-lengthened one and the same for femurs. I'm talking muscles. I think they have a name for that effect, but LL actually only promotes muscle growth.

Title: Re: Does leg lengthening lead to permanent muscular weakness?
Post by: ReadRothbard on April 22, 2015, 06:22:57 PM

Quote from: exclide on April 22, 2015, 05:00:42 PM

I'm no LL vet yet, though I'm eventually going to be one. I can tell you that no, it doesn't lead to muscle weakness. In fact, my lengthened bone segments are actually bigger than their counterparts. Like, my lengthened tibia is bigger than my non-lengthened one and the same for femurs. I'm talking muscles. I think they have a name for that effect, but LL actually only promotes muscle growth.

Have you done ll yet?

Title: Re: Does leg lengthening lead to permanent muscular weakness?
Post by: Overdozer on April 22, 2015, 06:32:31 PM

Quote from: ReadRothbard on April 22, 2015, 06:22:57 PM

Have you done ll yet?

Yeah I had my fixators removed 3 months ago. Obviously I'm not a vet and yet...

Title: Re: Does leg lengthening lead to permanent muscular weakness?
Post by: Medium Drink Of Water on April 22, 2015, 10:38:42 PM

Not in terms of pure strength.  I can do more on the leg press machine now than I could before LL.

It's the biomechanical changes that got to me in terms of endurance and agility.