# Limblong

> Limb lengthening in Armenia with an Ilizarov-trained surgeon


## Pages

- [Articles](https://limblong.com/articles/)
- [Home](https://limblong.com/)
- [Terms of Service](https://limblong.com/terms/): The scope of our facilitation services, what the surgeon and hospital are responsible for, payments, cancellation and governing law.
- [Privacy Policy](https://limblong.com/privacy/): How we collect, use, store and delete your personal and medical data.
- [Patient Protection: Our Written Policies](https://limblong.com/patient-protection/): What is covered if something goes wrong, how refunds work, how your data is handled, and how to complain. The summary; the full text comes with your treatment plan.
- [Book a Private Consultation](https://limblong.com/consultation/): Two short steps, no deposit, a reply from a person within one working day.
- [About Statura](https://limblong.com/about/): A Yerevan-based medical travel facilitator built around one surgeon, one hospital and one promise: candour.
- [Patient Stories](https://limblong.com/patient-stories/): Shared privately, with consent, during your consultation.
- [Questions Patients Actually Ask](https://limblong.com/faq/): Twenty-five questions from forums, messages and consultations, answered plainly. If yours is not here, ask it; the answer will probably end up on this page.
- [Limb Lengthening Abroad: Why Patients Choose Armenia](https://limblong.com/why-armenia/): Visa-free entry for every launch market, one of the world's safest capitals, a JCI-accredited hospital and the living tradition of the Ilizarov method, at a fraction of American prices. The case, made honestly.
- [Risks and Complications of Limb Lengthening](https://limblong.com/risks-and-complications/): The full list, written plainly, including how often each problem happens in our experience and what is done about it. Read this page before you read any other.
- [Your Stay in Yerevan](https://limblong.com/stay-in-yerevan/): Three months in one of the world's safest capitals, arranged before you land: visas, flights, where you will recover, who looks after you, what the weeks look like, and how you get home.
- [Your Journey, From First Call to One-Year Review](https://limblong.com/your-journey/): Every step, in order, with who does what and where you are. The patients who do best chose this with clear eyes, so here is the whole road.
- [Prof. Arshak Mirzoyan, MD, DMedSc](https://limblong.com/surgeon/): Orthopaedic surgeon in practice since 1980, trained in Kurgan under Prof. Ilizarov, founder of the Yerevan Center of Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction, author of three monographs and more than sixty papers.
- [Limb Lengthening Surgery Cost in Armenia](https://limblong.com/cost/): One all-inclusive price, written down before you decide, with every line explained: what it covers, what it does not, what changes it, and how it compares with Turkey, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom.
- [Femur and Tibia Lengthening, Staged](https://limblong.com/limb-lengthening-surgery/femur-and-tibia-lengthening/): For patients who want more than 8 cm: lengthening both segments in two stages, 12 to 16 cm in total, while keeping proportions natural. Who it is for, and who should stop at one segment.
- [The Ilizarov Method and LATN](https://limblong.com/limb-lengthening-surgery/ilizarov-method/): The original circular frame, used by a surgeon who learned it in Kurgan, and the LATN variant that places a nail after lengthening. When the classical method is still the right choice.
- [The LON Method: Lengthening Over Nail](https://limblong.com/limb-lengthening-surgery/lon-method/): An internal nail carries the load while a lightweight external frame guides the daily distraction. The most-chosen method for cosmetic lengthening, explained without the sales talk.
- [Limb Lengthening Surgery, Explained](https://limblong.com/limb-lengthening-surgery/): How stature lengthening works, which method suits which bone, the week-by-week timeline, the real risks, and what it costs, written by the team of a surgeon who has practised the method since 1980.


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