Limb Lengthening Forum
Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: invodua on November 17, 2022, 06:51:29 PM
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I'm post-consolidation after bilateral femur surgery and am now walking without any assistive devices. I'm obviously weak, but the biggest issue seems to be my body swaying left and right whenever I take steps. What should I do (other than just keep walking) to speed up getting back to a normal gait?
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I'm post-consolidation after bilateral femur surgery and am now walking without any assistive devices. I'm obviously weak, but the biggest issue seems to be my body swaying left and right whenever I take steps. What should I do (other than just keep walking) to speed up getting back to a normal gait?
stand on one leg and do a lot of side lateral raises. It'll take time to go away. I still have it but it's much better now and people don't notice.
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I had the same issue and walking faster helps to make it go away temporarily. Weak glutes cause swaying. I bought resistance band on amazon and did glute strengthening exercises. I was also doing squats since I had stryde nail and lots of bone growth. It takes many months for it to go away and swaying will 100% go away once the glute muscles are build.
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stand on one leg and do a lot of side lateral raises. It'll take time to go away. I still have it but it's much better now and people don't notice.
Thanks! Is this better than those seated lateral raise/outward swing machines your personal experience?
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ITB is released for femur lengthening and this may cause stability issues aside from muscle weakness. It grows back eventually.
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I had the same issue and walking faster helps to make it go away temporarily. Weak glutes cause swaying. I bought resistance band on amazon and did glute strengthening exercises. I was also doing squats since I had stryde nail and lots of bone growth. It takes many months for it to go away and swaying will 100% go away once the glute muscles are build.
Thanks!! What specific movements have you tried out with the resistance band for glute strengthening?
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Side Shuffle, Side-lying Clam, Upwards Glute Bridge
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I didn't really do anything special. I just started adapting normal life again after being allowed walking unaided. It went 100% away for me now. So I'd say just keep walking & walking.
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ITB is released for femur lengthening and this may cause stability issues aside from muscle weakness. It grows back eventually.
Thanks, so once my IT band grows back the swaying will decrease? I've been practicing walking with crutches and it does sort of feel like some kind of something is happening at the top bone connected to the IT band when I put less pressure on the crutches and rely more on the legs
I'm also trying to fix the swaying
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You should be fine, temporary lateral instability is probably universal for bilateral femur patients because the LPHC is altered. Paley has said when he does nail removal 2-3 years later the band looks like it was never touched.
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Thanks, so once my IT band grows back the swaying will decrease? I've been practicing walking with crutches and it does sort of feel like some kind of something is happening at the top bone connected to the IT band when I put less pressure on the crutches and rely more on the legs
I'm also trying to fix the swaying
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Its really interesting, my doctor sort of recommended me practicing a kind of walking where the feet go forward but kind of cross each other's side. A bit hard to explain, like the left foot moves forward but a bit to the right (so just crossing the centerline in front of me) and then the right foot moves forward but a bit to the left (just crossing the centerline in front of me). And repeat. I might be describing it wrong. But it gives off the look/feel of a sort of narrow criss cross
I am not sure the reason, he explained it to me but it went over my head and I didn't understand
I wonder if other doctor's also recommended this to you guys and what the reason was
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You should be fine, temporary lateral instability is probably universal for bilateral femur patients because the LPHC is altered. Paley has said when he does nail removal 2-3 years later the band looks like it was never touched.
LPHC = this thing?
https://www.clpt.fit/blog/the-complexity-of-lumbo-pelvic-hip-complex-and-its-importance
Its really a beautiful thing that the IT band grows right back. Its funny like we have nerves and spinal cords which can get completely fked up when they get cut. We have skin that can get scarred badly when cut in certain ways. And then we have the IT band that just grows right back to the point it looks like it was never touched.