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The internal lengthening nail (ILN) is a telescopic, motorized intramedullary nail or rod that is inserted into the marrow cavity of the bone. With a remote control device, the magnet in the nail is rotated and this gradually elongates the telescopic nail and the bone. With this method, the bone is straightened at the time of surgery when the ILN is inserted, and the lengthening is then done gradually over the next several weeks.
According to Our Doctor's, Chief of the Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service (LLCRS) at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, once the lengthened bone is healed, this new bone is as strong as any other bone in the body and does not weaken or deteriorate over time
Osteotomy and placement of most fixation devices may be done using epidural anesthesia – the same type of anesthesia that many women receive during childbirth – so that they may be awake during their surgery if they so choose. The average hospital stay is two days. The procedure involves no large incisions or bone grafts. Generally, patients who did not have a problem with pre-existing pain do not report significant pain in association with the surgery or the recovery. our pain panagement team works closely with all patients to keep them comfortable throughout the process.
Most patients treated at Our for this problem have leg length inequality that is the result of a congenital defect, a growth plate injury in childhood, or malunion of a fracture in which the bones heal in a deformed position or a non-union in which the bones do not heal at all. However, Limb lengthening 📞+1 863-784@5002 Treatment may also be used to correct a deformity of the arm. And the procedure has been used to lengthen both the arms and legs of individuals with exceptionally short stature as in dwarfism or precocious puberty.
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