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🗓️ 6 February 2025
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0:00.0 | The surgery is conducted by either breaking the femur or the tibia and fibula. |
0:05.5 | And fibula. |
0:06.3 | And that's the tibia and fibula are like one in the same for that segment. |
0:11.2 | Yeah, because if you think about it, right? |
0:13.3 | So here's fibula, here's tibia, right? |
0:15.8 | If you just break the tibia and you lengthen it, this one's still connected. |
0:19.6 | So you have to break them both |
0:21.1 | in order for you to be able to lengthen the. And then actually lengthening it, how does that |
0:26.0 | occur? There's two ways, internally and externally, right? There's multiple externals, the most, |
0:33.6 | the most commonly, I wouldn't say it's the most commonly used. |
0:38.8 | There's a lot of people do kind of the old school method. |
0:42.5 | The best way to do it with an external fixator is called L-O-N, |
0:46.0 | lengthening over a nail, where you have an external fixator. |
0:49.3 | Have you seen the video of me lengthening my legs at the mall? |
0:53.7 | Yeah, I think so yeah crazy I know |
0:57.0 | yeah that's some viral content right there I know it got a lot it got a lot of and it's |
1:03.5 | been shared a ton it's crazy that I did that anyway so there's an external fixator |
1:09.6 | it's both in and outside of your leg at the same time. |
1:12.4 | And you're like that for months, right? |
1:14.6 | No infection risk whatsoever. |
1:16.6 | And then you have a nail that's inside. |
1:19.6 | So what they do is they break your, they break your tibia and your fibula, right? |
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