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My mother-in-law is one week into her hip surgery recovery she had a hip joint replacement and he is concerned that one leg her left one is longer than her red one. The left side is the one that she had sent into the surgery for a long while before she was very nervous and anxious about how the whole process was going to go yet hoping to be relieved and happy to get back to the life she was wanting for the moment and day leading up to the surgery she was hiding her real emotions and trying to relax but she was not doing well at hiding her terrified and nervousness in the hospital or her faith in the Dr himself for his demonstration wasn't out of the ordinary nor was it out of place she had a small discussion about the left side being a half an inch shorter than the right and the other issues along with her worries about her medications were the most popular in her area of discussion with the Dr she had nodded and said that he was the Dr and he knew what he had to do so that must have meant to make whatever adjustments or changes needed for you to fix this doc and then we can set aside all the stuff that is going to be in the way of a good solution or research to help resolve her concerns but I'm sure she'll find that she had what I call a greater level opportunity and she wouldn't be satisfied if she was given the world with golden egglaying geese that sang your favorite songs. And again this perhaps is a situation where the Dr has really messed up and will try to evade all responsibility for any kind of support towards the fact that his work was unreasonable and mismeasured and he had no idea how badly he would be affecting her life like this.
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The smart-idiot answer here is that one is longer than the other because the other is shorter. But .....sorry bout that. Anyway, there are many possibilities here Genetics is one. There are many combination of variants which can do this. TB is another. Arthritis, cancers, accidents, athletics, etc. I would start with genetics by calling on Ambry Genetics, 23 & me, Sequencing.com, etc for an assay, exome, etc. This probably won't pin it down very tight, but should give you some clues for your next steps. And Write down every bit of MD calls or tests or whatever. Just start. You will be surprised at how much is in one's history which could be involved. oldkarl
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@freedom78 : Having one leg longer than the other after hip or knee replacement surgery is not that uncommon. A friend had a quite significant length difference after hip replacement and has to have her shoes customized with a thicker sole on the shorter leg. And I myself had about 1/2” difference after knee replacement, which threw my gait out of whack, and irritated my already existing Sciatica. I am wearing custom orthotic inserts, which have solved the problem. I wanted to point out that many people have different leg lengths even without any surgeries being involved, and don’t even notice. Might possibly have been the case with me. However, it seems that in the aftermath of a major joint surgery this issue becomes really, really, noticeable. Perhaps your MIL should take this up with her PT person also, since they are very much in the know, and my PT guy was the one to get wise to the length issue, after I had the hip pain etc. Good luck…..