Originally Posted by memento
PirateSteve comes to mind, who had the ligament operation and lost length in the process. Not an uncommon minority outcome according to the figures I’ve seen, maybe someone will dig up the stats.
Do you know what PirateSteve did or didn’t do post-op? I’ve heard that this is what can happen if you don’t stretch or hang or use an ADS or something like that to keep the ligs extended after the surgery.
The surgeon’s web sites I’ve looked at all (or nearly all) say that you can only really expect flaccid gains, at best, unless you do the post-op exercises. I find this very interesting. This is why I suggest that the length procedure might be understood as some sort of aid to what we do here (e.g., hang, stretch, etc.).
With the post-op exercises, one inch erect gain would be considered a big success, according to these surgeons, and two inches is what they put forward as a kind of upper limit. I know, this is not much relative to what some have gained here. But remember, there are “hard gainers.” When it comes to length, I fall into this category. If you are not a hard gainer, you definitely shouldn’t be thinking about surgery. But if you are, and if you’ve genuinely given hanging, etc., a try, then this might help. I’m hoping that in time we can learn more about this possibility here. (I still don’t like the idea of the scar, however.)
And then there is Hobby’s question: If you’ve already maxed out your lig gains from hanging or stretching, will the surgery be redundant and ineffective? Or, will it increase the potential for gains there in the ligs?