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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Height & Proportions => Topic started by: Atlas on January 05, 2021, 06:51:59 AM

Title: What should be longer? Tibia or femur?
Post by: Atlas on January 05, 2021, 06:51:59 AM

In normal humun bodies should tibia longer then femur or femur longer then tibia or both are equally or almost

Title: Re: What should be longer? Tibia or femur?
Post by: ghkid2019 on January 05, 2021, 06:57:35 AM

Femur is longer than tibia in pretty much 100% of humans. Averaging 0.8 tibia to femur (which means your femur is 25% longer than your tibia). Some world class runners may have a 0.85 ratio especially elite black endurance runners from some tribe in Africa. Many black people have >0.8 tibia ratios. No one has longer tibias than femurs or equal tibias to femurs barring some genetic mess in the womb

Title: Re: What should be longer? Tibia or femur?
Post by: Body Builder on January 05, 2021, 10:55:36 AM

Quote from: ghkid2019 on January 05, 2021, 06:57:35 AM

Femur is longer than tibia in pretty much 100% of humans. Averaging 0.8 tibia to femur (which means your femur is 25% longer than your tibia). Some world class runners may have a 0.85 ratio especially elite black endurance runners from some tribe in Africa. Many black people have >0.8 tibia ratios. No one has longer tibias than femurs or equal tibias to femurs barring some genetic mess in the womb

Well said.
Tibias are always shorter about 20% compared to femurs.
Personally, even after 7,5cm of LL I still have shorter tibias than femurs but not a lot (about 2-3cm).

Title: Re: What should be longer? Tibia or femur?
Post by: Ak95 on January 05, 2021, 08:48:09 PM

My ratio is about  femur> 0,9 tibia

Title: Re: What should be longer? Tibia or femur?
Post by: Kal el on January 06, 2021, 08:16:23 AM

Then i think i am a genetic freak coz my tibias are very long maybe not longer then femur or maybe but they look very long....btw what do u think is the knee height of a normal 6 ft male..and also a long and short legged 6 ftr.