What Is Limb Lengthening Surgery?

Limb lengthening surgery, often called limb reconstruction or elongation, is a complicated orthopedic treatment that lengthens arm and leg bones. This surgical procedure has improved and is now an option for those with limb length disparities, congenital limb defects, or who want to grow a few inches. This thorough reference covers limb lengthening surgery’s history, procedures, recuperation, dangers, and advantages.

What Is FixTheHeight?

FixTheHeight is a Hera Healthcare sub-project, which is one of the five largest health tourism agencies in Turkey with over thirty years of experience in the health sector.

Their aim is to help you reach your dream of becoming taller with limb lengthening surgery in Turkey through doctors who are reliable, experienced, and achieved a high level of patient satisfaction.

Who Can Have Cosmetic Lengthening Surgery?

Anybody unsatisfied with their height between the ages of 18-50 can have this surgery. Your bone healing speed and pain tresholds are determining factors in being a good candidate for this surgery. You can always send your x-rays to the FixTheHeight team to find out if you are eligible for the surgery or not.

How Exactly Does it Increase My Height?

Cosmetic Leg Lengthening is done by opening up the bone with the help of high-tech devices. These device is inserted into the leg bone (femur or tibia) during the surgery and it opens gaps in the bone every day with the help of it’s nails inside by 1 millimeter. As the bone heals itself and fills these opened gaps naturally, the lengthening completes every day.

What is the Maximum Number of Achievable Centimeters?

The lengthening amounts differ with your method of choice. For LON, you can extend up to 10 cm from the femur and 7-8 cm from the tibia. For Precise 2, the safe limits are 7 cm from the femur and 7 cm from the tibia due to technical limitations. For methods, please visit here.

How Long Does it Take to Increase Your Height?

The surgery itself takes about 5 hours, including preparation time, anesthesia and the time it takes to Post-Anesthesia recuperation. After the surgery, the patient stays at the hospital for 4 days and then is transferred to the hotel to start the lengthening after a week from the surgery. 1 cm of lengthening takes 10 days since 1 millimeter is achieved in 1 day. So if your aim is 80 days, the lengthening period would take at least 80 days. It also takes 6 months for the bone to recover fully. The patient can go back to regular activities after 6 months. Also, non-ordinary fast and increased lengthening surgeries affect the healing process negatively. On the other hand, the most positive impact on healing is to do physical therapy exercises after the surgery regularly.

What Are the Lengthening Methods?

There are 2 methods. The first one is LON (Lengthening Over Nail). This Method is a Lengthening method that is done by placing an internally and externally combined fixator inside the bone. This hybrid fixator is very easy to use since the lengthening is done by the patient thyself. Despite being cheaper, this method is rather more painful than other methods. Also, regular excerices and physical therapy is a must. Carrying a device on your legs may not be comfortable. However, it allows the patient to walk from day one.

The second method is The Precice 2 method which is an internal fixation method that uses a titanium nail inserted inside the bone. Lengthening is applied by a magnet device by the patient. During the lengthening phase, patients usually require a carer and bound to a wheelchair since this method does not allow the patient to give load to their legs. Regular exercise and physical therapy is a must on this method. This method offers the minimum pain, scars and most comfortable lengthening process.

How Long Does it Take to Increase Your Height?

The surgery itself takes about 5 hours, including preparation time, anesthesia and the time it takes to Post-Anesthesia recuperation. After the surgery, the patient stays at the hospital for 4 days and then is transferred to the hotel to start the lengthening after a week from the surgery. 1 cm of lengthening takes 10 days since 1 millimeter is achieved in 1 day. So if your aim is 80 days, the lengthening period would take at least 80 days. It also takes 6 months for the bone to recover fully. The patient can go back to regular activities after 6 months. Also, non-ordinary fast and increased lengthening surgeries affect the healing process negatively. On the other hand, the most positive impact on healing is to do physical therapy exercises after the surgery regularly.

When Can I Go Back to My Daily Activities?

Regardless of the amount of lengthening, you can go back to your normal daily life after 6 months from the surgery. Activities such as professional sports, powerlifting, and heavy fitness are recommended to be continued after at least 1 year from the surgery. Other than that, you can do everything the same as before after 6 months.

Getting Taller With Limb Lengthening Surgery Turkey

If you are not satisfied with your height, you have several options ahead of you to become taller. The strongest and the most trustworthy one is limb lengthening surgery. If you are looking for reliable and budget-friendly limb lengthening surgery provider, we recommend limb lengthening surgery Turkey through FixTheHeight. FixTheHeight offers you the best physician, best results with the guarantee of the best prices for limb lengthening surgery.