Limb Lengthening and Deformity Correction

  In this video, Dr. Donghoon Lee talks about the recurrent patella dislocation  There are two types of patella dislocation, they are traumatic dislocation and habitual dislocation.  Traumatic dislocation is hurting the cartilage, bones, ligament, and so on very suddenly and feeling severe pain.  For habitual dislocation, it's recurrent and depends on the flexibility of the surrounding organizations.   Doctor Lee ends the video by concluding that patella is such an important mechanism in our bodies, so it is important to take care of it and visit the surgeon as soon as possible if you have any problems related to it.  

 This video contains the interview with the patient who lengthened the height 6cm in total by undergoing the cosmetic leg lengthening surgery.   This patient became 171.5cm after going through the cosmetic leg lengthening surgery.  He underwent the surgery by LON(lengthening over nail) method  and lengthened 6cm in tibia.   After the patient grew 6cm, the biggest changes to him were clothes and proportion.  Whenever he gets the pants, he does not have to lengthen the pants anymore.  Also, many people around him started to say that you look even taller than your actual height. (because of ideal proportion) The three factors that this patient considered the most are safety, no major complication, and achieving the lengthening goals.  He is happy to get all three, so appreciates Dr. Lee so much.  

  This video contains the stories of the patients from Kazakhstan.   This patient had a cyst which causes the bone fracture.  He is here for treating it and hopes to wrestle again to achieve his dream which is becoming the national wrestling player.   After removing the cyst, the bone fracture naturally healed.  Now he needs recovery time and rehabilitation. This patient from Kazakhstan came to DALRI to correct her deformity.  Her right tibia was 6cm shorter than the left tibia  You can see the patient's pre-op(left) and post-op(right).  It is very clear that her legs got straightened a lot.   The patient is very happy to correct her deformity, and she does not have to suffer from discomfort such as being embarrassed when walking, having difficulty when driving, and so on.  

  In this video, Dr. Donghoon Lee talks about the lengthening segments(femur or tibia), lengthening target, procedure, athletic abilities recovery, and so on.   If you really care about the scars, lengthening the femur would be a better option since the scars for tibia are much more visible. Also, in terms of recovery time(daily routine, athletic abilities), femur is faster than tibia since the callous grows faster. For lengthening femur, PRECICE is the only option, but for tibia LON(lengthening over nail) is also producing good results.  Therefore, if you care about the cost for lengthening tibia, LON could be a suitable option.   For the last point, it is important to have a balance between femur and tibia when lengthening.  Therefore, it is not a good idea to lengthen one segment excessively for both reasons proportion, and recovery.  

  In this video, Dr. Donghoon Lee talks about regaining the athletic abilities after the leg lengthening surgery.  He shows his patient's case including the x-ray and the patient's athletic movements.   The patient maintains decent athletic abilities such as sprinting, jumping, and lifting weight even after the surgery.  The patient oneself also feels that he has recovered almost 100% from the pre-op.   The patient in the video lengthened 5cm in femur.  You can check the leg's length difference by looking at the before(left) & after(right) photo  According to Dr. Lee's study, the recovery of femur is much better in terms of athletic abilities recovery.  (compared to tibia) Dr. Lee claims that the key to the athletic abilities recovery is the rehabilitation.  If you dedicate yourself to rehab and work hard, you will be able to recover the athletic abilities fully(almost 100%) even after the surgery.  

  This video is the interview with the mother of the patient who is the  anesthesiologist.  At first, she had a negative view on her daughter undergoing the cosmetic leg lengthening surgery, but at the end, she is very happy about the result and appreciating Dr. Donghoon Lee a lot.   From Dr. Lee's perspective, the biggest advantage of the leg lengthening surgery is that the patients can become mentally healthier.  Of course, there are other advantages such as looking better, having better body proportions and so on, but the biggest part is that they do not feel complex about height anymore after the surgery. Dr. Lee believes that the cosmetic leg lengthening surgery is not just making the patients' legs longer, but also treating the patients' mind.  Therefore, he is very happy with the fact that he can do such a valuable surgery.  

    In this video, Dr. Donghoon Lee introduces the simultaneous lengthening program, and  he also shows the case of his patient  Dr. Lee takes EOS image which is one of the most sophisticated ways to check the patient's body specifically.   One of Dr. Lee's patients lengthened his target from 8cm to 10cm since his physical condition and rehab were both excellent  The patient is recovering well, going through the hydrotherapy(SwimEx) smoothly as well  The two main advantages of simultaneous lengthening are that you can lengthen 8-10cm in a short amount of time and also get an ideal body proportion 

  This is a video of Dr. Donghoon Lee being at the Ludwig maximilian University at Munich, Germany in September 2019 to give lectures and demonstrate surgical techniques   Dr. Lee is giving lectures at the international conference  Dr. Lee is happy to attend the international conference this year since he could not attend last year, and see his best friends Dr. Peter Thaller, Dr. Kevin, and Dr. Metin  Dr. Lee hopes the STRYDE(the newest nail) to be available in Korea as soon as possible.  STRYDE is much stronger than the PRECICE nail made of stainless steel   Overall, Dr. Lee had a great time providing lectures, giving demonstrations, meeting his  best friends as well as experiencing new technologies

In this video, Dr. donghoon Lee talks about the calves getting better after leg lengthening surgery. He explains why calves get bigger after leg lengthening surgery and how you can protect from it the phenomenon of calves' thickness getting bigger tends to happen after lengthening tibia when our bone is fractured, the body naturally supplies lots of blood to regenerate the bone after rehabilitation is over and getting back to the normal life, those cells that received nutrition become bigger and the calves finally become thicker For men, tibia's thickness gets even thicker compared to the women.   there were almost no women who complained about their thickness of the calves after the surgery  It does not mean that lengthening less can make the thickness of the tibia less thicker  One of the ways that could prevent from calves getting thicker would be to wear compression stockings.   I recommend the patients who underwent the surgery ...

In this video, Dr. donghoon Lee shows the case of LATN (Lengthening and then nail) surgery this patient lengthened 7cm in tibia 8 years ago (very long time ago) Showing the patient's post-op x-ray, his lengthening site is very smooth and strong bone is formed. Callus is well formed, and the alignment looks nice as well Now, the patient has recovered fully. He is running well, maintaining his athletic ability well such as jumping and walking up the stairs. The patient does not feel difference in athletic ability compared to the pre-op Doctor Lee emphasizes that lengthening is not everything. When lengthening, it is also very important to care about nice alignment He wishes good luck to the patient 

This is an interview with one of the patients who underwent the cosmetic leg lengthening surgery with Dr. donghoon Lee. She explains about her full journey of leg lengthening surgery At least I think for the longest time I felt like that I am so abnormally short So I came across leg lengthening surgery in one of the articles when I was reading online, and started to search on the doctors So I thought Dr. Lee his price is very reasonable, and he studied with Dr. Paley who is one of the pioneers in this area he seems like he really knows the technique and he seems to be very caring doctor So, I decided to undergo the surgery with Dr. Lee Even though it's just 6cm, I felt like it was a big difference now I am about 156 even though it's only 6cm of difference I don't feel like I am short anymore a lot of times, people just viewed me as a short person without thinking about other characteristics before but now people would notice my other qualities such as ...