STATURE LENGTHENING CONSULTATION AND SURGERY
BONE HEALING PHASE
OPTION 1
Have your imaging facility place the images on a disc for you so that you can upload them yourself to My Medical Images website www.mymedicalimages.com
When ready to upload the images, please let us know and we will have an email from My Medical Images sent to you with a one time, free upload link. (Please check your spam folder)
Once you receive the email with the link, follow the prompts to upload your images. (No need to create an account)
Once you have completed the process, we will transfer all imaging from that site to our Paley PACS System and alert your physician.
- The site only supports Google Chrome and Safari, do NOT use other web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.You will need a CD drive/reader to upload images.
- An account is NOT necessary to use the one time, free upload link.
- You may choose to create an account for ~ $30 per year.
- Use code OTHROMD for $10 off your first year.
- We can only provide one free upload link per email address provided.
- If you have used a link previously, please provide a new email, or create a paid account with the original email.
- If you have any trouble uploading the images please reach out to My Medical Images support line at (855) 800-2851.
OPTION 2
(SLOWER, CAN TAKE UP TO 10 DAYS FOR US TO RECEIVE THE IMAGES AT THE INSTITUTE)
Mail the disc with the imaging to the following address:
Paley Institute
Attn: Name of Physician
901 45th Street, Kimmel Building
West Palm Beach, FL 33407
OPTION 3
Email these to dpaley@limblengthening.org or crobbins@limblengthening.org.
RETURN TO SPORTS
You have to regain your motion, muscle strength, and dexterity before returning to sports. If you work hard at this, you can go back as early as a month or two after the bone is solid. This is at approximately 6 months from surgery for most 8cm femur and 5cm tibia lengthenings. The bone healing is determined by Drs. Paley and Robbins from the radiographs you send in.
Drs. Paley & Robbins have performed implantable lengthening of the femur and tibia using a variety of devices (the Albizzia, ISKD). They have the largest experience in the world using the Precice and STRYDE nail. To date, all of their patients have achieved the goals of treatment and have returned to full activities including sports. Several articles of our published results are downloadable from this website.
SECOND LENGTHENING
If you choose to have a second lengthening done (e.g. bilateral tibias after completing bilateral femurs), an interval of one year or more is recommended between lengthenings. It is possible to overlap the femoral and tibial lengthenings (option 3).
SIMULTANEOUS LENGTHENING
The major benefit of simultaneous lengthening is to achieve a greater lengthening than possible with one bone segment during your stay in West Palm Beach. Several strategies exist to achieve goals of up to 16 centimeters. Review the Lengthening Strategies for more details.
Although femoral and tibial lengthening can be done simultaneously, we do not insert the femoral and tibial rods at the same time due to the theoretical risk of fat embolism from reaming the medullary canal of more than two bones at a time. To insert four rods in the same surgery would increase the chance of fat embolism and death.
With a simultaneous lengthening strategy the tibial lengthening is performed first. This is done for several reasons: tibial lengthening is performed more slowly than femurs, tibial healing takes longer than femurs, and tibial lengthening technique requires full knee flexion to perform. Femur lengthening is performed 3 weeks after tibial lengthening.
