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Limb Lengthening Service of the Hospital for Special Surgery
Our surgeons offer surgical treatments for the correction of upper and lower limb deformities, discrepancies, and injuries in adults and children. We help individuals with orthopaedic issues due to trauma, birth defects, infections or bone tumors. Our aim is to use the best tools available today — from hexapod external fixation to internal limb lengthening devices, such as the Precice® motorized magnetic nail and the newest technology, the STRYDE® weight bearing lengthening nail. These tools are combined with our surgeons' expert surgical techniques to achieve results many patients have only dreamed of.
We perform arm and leg lengthening, limb malalignment correction, repair bone nonunions, and treat knee and ankle arthritis with distraction, fusion, or replacement. Along with limb length discrepancy, we correct genu valgum, commonly known as knock knee, and genu varum, or bowleg. We are experts at limb salvage and amputation reconstruction. Whether patients are suffering from arthritis, genetic deformity, bone tumor, or the after effects of a traumatic accident, the Limb Lengthening & Complex Reconstruction Service of Hospital for Special Surgery is ready to get them on the road to recovery and an improved quality of life.
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Happy Holidays!
And same to you all!
💬"My life has changed with fixator on."
👉 Annamaria suffered an open fracture of the tibia due to a car accident
🏥 Despite a skillful reconstruction attempt at an outside hospital, her tibia was crooked and she was still in danger of losing her leg.
🦵 When her reconstruction fell apart, she was referred to me to save her leg (limb salvage)
🔧 I used the external fixator for shortening and lengthening. This is a version of bone transport where we shorten the damaged part of the tibia, heal the nonunion, and simultaneously lengthen the tibia from the top.
👍 In doing so, the nonunion healed faster and any leg length discrepancy was remedied
😄 Thanks to the Orthospin automatic struts, Annamaria didn't have to worry about adjusting the fixator, the struts adjusted themselves!
🗯 Annamaria had this to say, "Even though the apparatus and the computer components attached to it seemed intimidating, it made my life painless and easier to take care of."
💪 Now she's back working full-time, "It totally amazed me that my body was healing and working as I continue to live my life." she explains.
💬 She's on course for a great recovery and had this to say about the future, "My hope is to walk normally with out any help.. To carry my bag and walk. To walk long distance and enjoy the scenery, enjoy shopping outside outlets, enjoy people company without them worried about me, to dance even line dance without modifying.. I can go on on. I just want to walk normally with my own two legs!"
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Love this post! I would love to show her my son running now after the fixator.
Awesome!!! Great success story!
Baruch exclaimed “my leg hasn’t been this straight in 39 years- a Hanukkah 🕎 miracle”. I corrected a femur #malunion #knocknee with osteotomy and blocking screw technique to preserve his knee joint. #Rozbruch #aaos #llrs #orthopedicsurgery #orthopedicsurgeon #hospitalforspecialsurgery #limblengthening @hspecialsurgery @limbdeformity @limbtumordoc #SRobertRozbruchMD www.limblengthening.com www.hss.edu/limblengthening www.hss.edu/LSARC