Hi guys hope you're all doing well. I understand that the main problem with ll is the stretching of soft tissues. Can someone please explain to me the difference between natural growth during puberty vs ll? Why can we not stimulate growth of soft tissues during ll?gm
With natural growth your body adapts to the change rather quickly and becomes balanced. The muscles and bone grow in conjunction with each other and this results in a much more balanced, normal growth.
With LL, you are stretching your leg bones and not growing anywhere else. So your body has to adapt to the growth without having the benefit of having the rest of the body (muscles, veins and nerves) grow with it. This leads to some mobility and balance loss.
thanks for your reply - what is it that makes the tissues grow during puberty though? Is it just because the natural growth of the bone during puberty is slower than ll so the tissues have time to grow? Does this mean that if you could do ll really slowly, the tissues would have time to grow rather than just stretching unnaturally fast?
Quote from: kats20 on May 17, 2020, 08:21:45 PMthanks for your reply - what is it that makes the tissues grow during puberty though? Is it just because the natural growth of the bone during puberty is slower than ll so the tissues have time to grow? Does this mean that if you could do ll really slowly, the tissues would have time to grow rather than just stretching unnaturally fast?
Yes. You grow much faster during LL than during puberty. You grow an inch a month in LL opposed to like an inch every 3 months in puberty.
You also have high as fk growth hormone during puberty, so everything grows faster and better than just stretching
why is it not possible to lengthen slowly enough for the tissues to grow alongside the bone? Or at least, why is there not more focus on regeneration of the tissues during traditional ll? The surgery as it is just now just seems so...........primitive. Do you think these are the areas which will see developments in the future?
Leaving the nail for lengthening for longer than a few months would cause lots of infection. Besides, unless you have a protein deficiency or something your muscles should return to a relatively normal state after a while. On development, I'm not sure. We've advanced a lot from previous lengthening techniques (ie we have nails that lengthen from inside instead of the barbaric nail that used to be used) however I don't think this is a surgery that will ever be 100% risk, complication and after effect free. You are, after all, destroying your bones and molding them into your own image to make them the length you want.
If you lengthen too slowly you could end up with a premature union of the bone which wouldn't be ideal for max length causing the surgeon to do another break etc. aka not fun. But times are changing. There are a lot of LL doctors doing research on improving recovery post LL etc. Also technology is moving faster than a lot of people may know so in my opinion I think there will be advancements that are more appealing than current LL methods.
Sorry, guys, a very stupid question follows. I am just a little bit confused by your discussion.
It's clear that when you stretch your broken bones, the bone tissue grows in between the parts of bone. But what really happens to all the other tissue, i.e. muscles, nerves, vessels, etc.? Do they grow too, or just remain in an unnatural stretched position forever? I supposed that they are stretched at first, and then grow essentially to the position that would be normal if you had had this bone length originally.
Quote from: Aquahoma2 on May 18, 2020, 02:43:43 AMSorry, guys, a very stupid question follows. I am just a little bit confused by your discussion.
It's clear that when you stretch your broken bones, the bone tissue grows in between the parts of bone. But what really happens to all the other tissue, i.e. muscles, nerves, vessels, etc.? Do they grow too, or just remain in an unnatural stretched position forever? I supposed that they are stretched at first, and then grow essentially to the position that would be normal if you had had this bone length originally.
they grow also. they dont stay stretched forever
If doctors focused more on recovery of soft tissues obviously more people would do it. Even though it's a barbaric procedure I know I would do it in a heartbeat if recovery methods were more advanced and sophisticated.
I appreciate your thoughts and it is good to hear from people much more knowledgeable than myself that methods/technologies are developing.
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