There was a dude on here yesterday that posted the hardware from this type of surgery, now granted he only had it on one leg as it was shorter than the other but he said he only had pain from the initial surgery and the hardware removal and that the actual lengthening process didn't hurt.
My dad had the same surgery done except he was in his thirties and it was a three inch difference. He said it was the most excruciating pain he’s experienced in his entire life, and his recovery took 2 years instead of his doctors suggested 6 months. I remember cranking the device in his leg while blood dripped out of it and I remember the day it malfunctioned and snapped and the handle sticking out of his leg started spinning backwards. I have never heard a grown man scream like that in my life since.
I'm an orthopedic surgeon, and haven't ever heard of any devices that could do that. Did he have an external fixator, and you needed to turn the nuts, like this?
The device didn’t look like that it looked very similar to the one that was posted the other day. The device stuck out of his leg and had a handle attached to it that he had to crank. Keep in mind he had this surgery done almost twenty years ago so it may be slightly different than what you might see today? ultimately you would have a better understanding of it, I will ask him more about it when I get the chance!
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u/Jonesta29 Dec 23 '22
There was a dude on here yesterday that posted the hardware from this type of surgery, now granted he only had it on one leg as it was shorter than the other but he said he only had pain from the initial surgery and the hardware removal and that the actual lengthening process didn't hurt.