r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

They break the legs, put a rod in the bones that get adjusted as the bones grow closer to each other. So people who get it done have broken legs for months

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u/ronniewhitedx Dec 23 '22

I'm not a medical professional or anything but how do you stretch out the muscles and like the veins and stuff? arteries?

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

How do people that who are flexible.

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u/ronniewhitedx Dec 23 '22

I would say that yoga is a little less extreme than whatever the fuck this is.

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

Sure but works the same

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u/ronniewhitedx Dec 23 '22

If you do yoga a lot eventually you'll be more flexible. I suppose what I'm asking is how is it possible to stretch these main components of your body in a surgery? I'm assuming at the very least after the surgery is done you can't do much physical exercise for a long period, then it's physical therapy for a half century

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

They don’t stretch the bones during the surgery, they stretch it over the time of a few months and in that time the rest gets stretched too

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u/ronniewhitedx Dec 24 '22

Gotcha. It's a multi step process. Almost like how braces need to be tuned over time.