Originally Posted by Monty:
The concept that healing without any steady stretch will produce healing in the last longest state is wrong. Ligament tissues heal in 3 distinct phases and in the last stage the body will return the tissues that were damaged to their original length. Take a look at Prolotherapy and Treatment Guidelines and Comprehensive review of Prolotherapy research. – Caring Medical Florida
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Prolotherapy ("Proliferative Injection Therapy") involves injecting an otherwise non-pharmacological and non-active irritant solution into the body, generally in the region of tendons or ligaments for the purpose of strengthening weakened connective tissue and alleviating musculoskeletal pain. There is conflicting evidence about its effectiveness and it is an experimental treatment.[1]
Prolotherapy - Wikipedia
Prolotherapy is used to alleviate pain, not to elongate connective tissue.
Originally Posted by Monty:
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When you conceptualize that bone can be lengthened by breaking it and then retaining the bone in a traction state the bone grows together naturally but is now longer.
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Penis is not a bone.
Originally Posted by Monty:
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When you conceptualize that bone can be lengthened by breaking it and then retaining the bone in a traction state the bone grows together naturally but is now longer.The same principle works here only with softer tissue the damage is not as traumatic as a total breakage as is required in the bone example. Ligaments can be damaged from stress and collagen will come to that point and start wrapping itself around the damaged strings or matrix of the ligament tissues. If they are allowed to proceed normally they WILL cause shrinkage of the surrounding area returning it to its ORIGINAL length. Collagen shrinks as it matures.
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<<Intrinsic fibroblast-mediated remodeling of damaged collagenous matrices in vivo
Paolo P. Provenzanoa, b, , , Adriana L. Alejandro-Osoriob, c, Wilmot B. Valhmub, Kristina T. Jensena, b and Ray Vanderby, Jr.a, b a
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States bDepartment of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States cDepartment of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
Abstract
Numerous studies have examined wound healing and tissue repair after a complete tissue rupture and reported provisional matrix and scar tissue formation in the injury gap. The initial phases of the repair are largely mediated by the coagulation response and a principally extrinsic inflammatory response followed by type III collagen deposition to form scar tissue that may be later remodeled.
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following a Grade II subfailure injury to the collagen matrix, we conclude that tissue remodeling is fibroblast-mediated and occurs without scar tissue formation, but instead with type I collagen fibrillogenesis to repair the tissue.
Subfailure damage repairing in ligaments
Healing?
firegoat - Loading, lengthening, healing.
So, the healing process of the tissue that had gros ruptures is different from healing of subfailure damaged tissue. The idea that the tissue has to heal in a longer state, stretching it, is based on a false premise.
And: when there is a gros tissue rupture, stretching is not applied right after the trauma, but when the healing process is already on the path, and scar tissue has to be very gently stretched. Applying any stretch on a teared tissue will just cause more trauma/slower healing.
This theory is also disproved by empiric evidence: how could most used routine, based on 2 on- 1 off or 3 on - 1 off schedule, elongate the penis?