Limb Lengthening Forum

Limb Lengthening Surgery => Height & Proportions => Topic started by: Ozzi6557 on February 06, 2022, 09:57:37 AM

Title: Femur vs tibia
Post by: Ozzi6557 on February 06, 2022, 09:57:37 AM

What is the average ratio of femur to tibia?

Title: Re: Femur vs tibia
Post by: Medium Drink Of Water on February 06, 2022, 05:28:55 PM

6:5

Title: Re: Femur vs tibia
Post by: zaozari on February 06, 2022, 09:00:52 PM

Be aware of 3 important things:
1) Besides the average universal average, the value may differ greatly between people, for example,  generally, the shorther you are, the higher the ratio is (that is, the tibia is relatively shorter; this may became a further "advantage" for tibial lenghtening versus femurs when evaluating both).
2) The value is diferent between diferent populations and countries, sometimes a lot.
3) Manual measurements are useless. The accurate measures can only be obtained by an Rx to full legs.