{"id":39620,"date":"2021-04-04T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/history-of-calf-reduction-through-muscle-removal\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:16:55","slug":"history-of-calf-reduction-through-muscle-removal","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/history-of-calf-reduction-through-muscle-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"History of calf reduction through muscle removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although calf reduction by means of surgical manipulation of the gastrocnemius muscle is now performed much more frequently in Asia than in Europe or on the American continent, it <strong>originated<\/strong> in Germany. The first person to describe this technique was Prof. <strong>Gottfried Lemperle<\/strong>, who published his paper in 1998. <\/p>\n<h2>Operation on the calf muscle<\/h2>\n<p>Patients who were treated with a gastrocnemius flap (both heads) as part of knee defect coverage showed no long-term mechanical impairment of calf function. Therefore, 15 patients with muscular calf hypertrophy (= enlarged calves) underwent calf surgery with <strong>complete removal of<\/strong> the gastrocnemius muscle. <\/p>\n<p>Two patients experienced temporary numbness at the outer edge of the foot due to impairment of a nerve supplying this area (sural nerve). However, this loss of sensation disappeared completely after the calf reduction. <\/p>\n<h2>Good result of calf reduction<\/h2>\n<p>All patients were satisfied with the result. None of the patients complained of any functional limitations. All patients were able to pursue sporting activities after the operation.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/9811025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The resection of gastrocnemius muscles in aesthetically disturbing calf hypertrophy. &#8211; Lemperle G, Exner K. &#8211; Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998 Nov;102(6):2230-6. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Lemperle was the first to describe calf reduction by muscle removal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[96,154],"class_list":["post-39620","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-wade","encyclopedia-tag-wadenverkleinerung"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}