Well, first off, in order to obtain the private tourist Russian visa (the most suitable type of visa to travel here for treatment), you will need an official Letter of Invitation from Russia that will serve as the grounds for granting you a visa. Our hospital will provide you with this Letter after you let us know about your desire to undergo leg lengthening surgery here. But keep in mind that issuing Invitation takes from 7 days to 1.5 months (depending on your country). After we send it to you, you should file a visa request along with our Invitation with the nearest Russian Embassy. Your visa will be issued soon; then you can buy the plane tickets and fly to Russia. As for travel insurance, it is usually included in the cost of the tickets.

International patients usually arrive to Moscow first, where they should change planes and fly to Volgograd then. When you arrive to Volgograd, our agent will pick you at the airport and bring you right to the center, so you won’t get lost here for sure. ) The same way we will help you back to the airport. At your request we can provide the transfer service in Moscow too, but that’s to be discussed individually.
Pain management: you will be under anesthesia during the operation and thus won’t feel anything. The first day after the operation you will be administered strong painkillers and sleep almost all the time, so practically no pain at this stage. The following days you will see for yourself if you need the painkilling medications or not. It will depend on your individual sensations.
You can start treatment in any season of the year – there is no difference.

No, it is impossible to do your legs and arms at the same time. In case you really want to have both your legs and arms lengthened, it can be done consequently, limb by limb: first shins, then thighs, then upper arms. Each stage lasts for about a year and is followed by one-year break before the next stage. Each stage implies a full course of surgery and treatment and is priced separately. So as you can see, it is quite a complicated, expensive and painful process, and you must seriously consider if you really need it.
No, your muscles do not bother your bones’ growing. And you don’t have to quit weight lifting in order to affect your muscles, but you will have to make a pause anyway when you recover after surgery. There is no need to stop taking any food supplements either. So as you can see, no special preparation is needed.

You see, the problem is that the way you try to measure your limbs is not correct, and it is impossible to give a definite upper-lower limb proportion – it’s individually calculated upon taking your exact measurements and deducing your anthropometrical indices by a doctor on the spot. But you can send us your full-length picture so we can make approximate calculations and give you some recommendations.

Yes, we have specialized departments that provide facial surgery, and you can make use of their services while you are on the fixation period after our leg-lengthening operation.

Thanks for bringing up this point, I'm sure there isnt much difference from people who break their legs in accidents and this procedure... how come only one case has arthritis and not the other, something is missing.

Thank you very much for extending your knowledge to us, it is greatly appreciated.
Alot of us here in the USA are very excited about this procedure; however, we would feel much more at ease if we were to see the hospital in person. Would you be willing to allow a group of people come to visit the Volgograd hospital and discuss our concerns in the future?
Thank you.

After the operation, will you be able to sleep normal like we all use too? Or you have a tough time.

Simon

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In our Center's practice, we use the external method that was developed by the founder of the cosmetic limb lengthening technology, Dr.Yegorov. This is the safest method specially designed for cosmetic limb lengthening basing on Ilizarov technology. It is called external, because during the correction and fixation periods, patients must wear special metal structures over their limbs. For the all experience time we have not had any complications after our cosmetic limb lengthening operations. All our patients are in good physical condition and they never regret taking on this method treatment.
As for the internal method, we consider that it is not good for cosmetic limb lengthening absolutely. Because using the compound internal device does not correspond to the principles of cosmetic surgery. There are a lot of risks involved. Using this method the internal device is plunged into the medullary cavity of the bones. In this case the yellow bones medulla is destroyed which may lead to serious complications even to embolia of the lung, brain
vessels. Moreover using this method there is the necessity of performing the repeated operation for removing of the device. This is additional trauma. And after the treatment patient needs the long time exercises and physiotherapy. So it is our subjective opinion that the internal method
must not be used for cosmetic treatment.

Yes, it is possible, and many our patients make use of it at our hospital's gym. Though it would be not easy to do right after the operation, but after a week or so - why not...