Limb Lengthening Forum
Limb Lengthening Surgery => Height & Proportions => Topic started by: farmerjohn1324 on October 24, 2017, 01:46:11 PM
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I didn't see the proportions section of the forum until now.
I am currently just under 68". I would like to add up to the maximum of 14.5 cm. This would make me just under 74" or 6'2".
My wingspan is currently 70" so I would be just under 4" shorter in arm length than height. I am currently 39" to the widest part of the pelvis and 21.25" knee height.
I am not worried about short arms as I don't think it would be noticeable, but I want to keep as normal proportions as possible between tibia and femur and upper body.
What is your suggestion of how much to add and where?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yefd75jv36sxpmk/XCamera-20171024_094306.jpg?dl=0
Couldn't upload, so here's a link.
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1) I can only see one photo which doesn't show your full body or your legs properly.
2) 14.5 cm is a lot of lengthening even on two segments.
3) 4" over your wingspan will be noticeable imo. You'll be good at 5'10" +. Save yourself the potential misery of bad proportions and don't go more than a couple of inches over your wingspan- say to 6'0" tops.
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1) I can only see one photo which doesn't show your full body or your legs properly.
2) 14.5 cm is a lot of lengthening even on two segments.
3) 4" over your wingspan will be noticeable imo. You'll be good at 5'10" +. Save yourself the potential misery of bad proportions and don't go more than a couple of inches over your wingspan- say to 6'0" tops.
Can you suggest how much of that should be tibia versus femur?
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It depends on what your bone length ratio already is. You can only tell that through scans.
You might be able to eye it a bit. My tibia seems to be pretty short so I think I'll be lengthening my tibia.
Most people have a naturally longer femur than tibia. An idea of what an average lengthening might look like is, say, 4 cm on your tibia and 6 on your femur.
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It depends on what your bone length ratio already is. You can only tell that through scans.
You might be able to eye it a bit. My tibia seems to be pretty short so I think I'll be lengthening my tibia.
Most people have a naturally longer femur than tibia. An idea of what an average lengthening might look like is, say, 4 cm on your tibia and 6 on your femur.
There's a CLL doctor here in orlandoflorida. I will make an appointment and ask his opinion. I've been talking to a doctor in Vietnam and he says the proportions would be okay. But I'll get different opinions.
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The CLL doctor in my home town only does a maximum of 4 inches total. And he wants $700 just for initial visit. That's too much for me to pay when I know I won't be using him anyway.
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Hi All, I got it in my mailbox yesterday and thought you might find it interesting:
https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/human-body-proportions-and-cosmetic-limb-lengthening (https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/human-body-proportions-and-cosmetic-limb-lengthening)
Best wishes
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Hi All, I got it in my mailbox yesterday and thought you might find it interesting:
https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/human-body-proportions-and-cosmetic-limb-lengthening (https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/human-body-proportions-and-cosmetic-limb-lengthening)
Best wishes
nice... thx...
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Hi All, I got it in my mailbox yesterday and thought you might find it interesting:
https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/human-body-proportions-and-cosmetic-limb-lengthening (https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/human-body-proportions-and-cosmetic-limb-lengthening)
Best wishes
So did they ever come out with the data?
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You can read the abstract here (https://www.athensbjr.com/blog--news/dr-dimitrios-giotikas-at-the-annual-conference-of-british-limb-reconstruction-society-15-16-march-2018-southampton-uk), but the event that the doctor is presenting in hasn't happened yet; in fact it's this week (March 15 & 16), so hopefully it'll be released soon after.