Hey, been lurking on the site for a while, and had a quick question - has anyone heard of purposefully decreasing the rate of lengthening for the sake of better recovery?

Looking at Guichet's results it seems like weight bearing and pre-op training is hugely beneficial (no surprise), but in terms of soft tissue damage/emphasis on athletic recovery, it seems to me that if you slowed down the lengthening process you'd get better results. Using femurs as the case in point, why not reduce the rate of lengthening from 1 mm to 0.5 mms per day ... I know the fear would be premature consolidation but tibias are lengthened at that rate generally and seem to do ok?

Basically was looking to the future with Synoste and thinking about the possibilities of retaining (somewhat) basic functioning/walking while lengthening. I don't know of any fundamental issues with lengthening bone/soft tissue as an adult following besides closure of growth plates, so it seems like if you could reduce the rate of expansion to get closer to that pubescent growth spurt you might have less or no effects.

What do you think??