{"id":39659,"date":"2021-03-25T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T07:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/calf-expander\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:52:05","slug":"calf-expander","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/calf-expander\/","title":{"rendered":"Calf expander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Calf expanders are<\/strong> also <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/calf-implants\/\">calf implants<\/a><\/strong>, although they are <strong>rarely<\/strong> used for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/op\/body\/calf-augmentation\/\"> calf augmentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Expanders are silicone sleeves that can be filled via a valve. The expander is implanted in the calf at the point where the filling effect is desired by the patient. <\/p>\n<p>The valve, which is connected to the expander via a small tube, is inserted under the skin where it is easy to feel. At Yuveo, we can now fill the expander with <strong>saline solution<\/strong> via the valve week after week, gradually filling the chamber and causing the calf implant to swell. <\/p>\n<p>The expansion stretches the tissue and creates a cavity that serves as a space for the final <strong>calf implant<\/strong>. The <strong>tissue expansion<\/strong> must take place over approx. <strong>6 weeks<\/strong> for the effect to be permanent. <\/p>\n<p>The amount and speed of filling depend on the tissue, the desired tissue stretch and the patient&#8217;s perception of pain.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>When does it make sense to use a calf expander?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Such a stretching effect is always useful when it comes to<strong> extreme<\/strong> <strong>calf conditions<\/strong>, e.g. after injuries, burns and in the case of calf hypotrophy = too little calf tissue, which has existed since childhood.<\/p>\n<p>In these cases, there is a lack of tissue, so that even when implanting medium-sized implants, we can have massive problems during the operation due to the tight conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calf expanders are also calf implants, although they are rarely used for calf augmentation. Expanders are silicone sleeves that can be filled via a valve. The expander is implanted in the calf at the point where the filling effect is desired by the patient. The valve, which is connected to the expander via a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[100,99,96],"class_list":["post-39659","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-expander","encyclopedia-tag-vergroessern","encyclopedia-tag-wade"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39659","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=39659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}