new thought about leg length

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Hey, Hippies...(docs especially, please chime in)

My question of all who now find post-op leg length disparity: Is it

possible that the problem that got you to the point of needing a

resurf was an undetected or undiagnosed developmental/congenital

disparity in leg length.

It's fairly commonly known that bodies do not develop symmetrically,

so what's to say that our two legs didn't develop at slight different

lengths as we grew, and that the resurf actually returns the leg to

the real length it was before the physical problem that required

surgery. It may seem perverse (and I certainly could be wrong), but

wouldn't it be remarkable if the surgery, in restoring the hip,

actually also returned us to the problem that caused the hip to fail

in the first place?

Hobble on Hippies...

Alan