Limb Lengthening Surgery Methods

• External or Internal: Combined
• Walking During Lengthening: ✓
• External Fixator Usage: 3 months
• Bone Healing: 5-6 months
• Full Recovery: 9-12 months
• Max. Height Gain: Tibia: 5-7cm / Femur: 8cm

‘LON’ stands for Lengthening Over Nails’, which literally means that the bones are distracted or lengthened with an internal nail; however the bones are lengthened using a mono-lateral type external...

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• External or Internal: Combined
• Walking During Lengthening: ✓
• External Fixator Usage: 3 months
• Bone Healing: 5-6 months
• Full Recovery: 9-12 months
• Max. Height Gain: Tibia: 5-7cm / Femur: 8cm

‘Lengthening And Then Nailing’ The procedure was also introduced to reduce the time of external fixation. The procedure is quite similar like LON, this also required two surgical procedures but in LATN first...

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• External or Internal: Internal
• Walking During Lengthening: X
• External Fixator Usage: X
• Bone Healing: 5-6 months
• Full Recovery: 9-12 months
• Max. Height Gain: Tibia: 5-6cm / Femur: 8cm

‘Precice2’ by the Nuvasive USA, offers a revolution in Limb Lengthening surgery; for almost all the history of limb lengthening surgeries; doctors…

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• External or Internal: Internal
• Walking During Lengthening: ✓
• External Fixator Usage: X
• Bone Healing: 5-6 months
• Full Recovery: 9-12 months
• Max. Height Gain: Tibia: 5-6cm / Femur: 8cm

‘Stryde’ is the latest and most advanced limb lengthening system available anywhere in the world. Largely, the ‘Stryde’ is a newer version…

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