Originally Posted by sparkyx
There have been procedures where they insert steel rods into leg bones and slowly apply pressure to extend the length…and it works.
It does work, but they have to break the bone first. The broken bone is allowed to heal until a “soft callus” is formed. The soft callus consists of collagen and other connective tissue stuff but is not mineralized.
Then the distractor is applied. Importantly, distraction only works in this soft callus state. Once the bone mineralizes, no further growth can occur.
Check out this thread, which goes into bone lengthening in detail.
Originally Posted by sparkyx
The collagan, ligaments, muscle, nerves,blood vessels, well …just about everything in the leg has to lengthen along with the bone.I think there are few tissues in the human frame that doesn’t respond to slow steady pressure, either pulling or compression…thats out of necessity.
That’s the big question: Do all tissues lengthen by the same amount? Tendons and ligaments may be particularly resistant. Softer tissues are easier to stretch.
I think one of the posts in the thread I linked to above says that tendons and ligaments are cut during limb distraction and reattached afterwards. Not a good piece of information from our point of view.
Originally Posted by sparkyx
In penis enlargement I think we have two major ways of expanding the tissue.One is frank force, enough to overcome the inherent integrity of the tissue. Force that exceeds the tissues ability to maintain its present proportions. Deformation force.
Two, a much milder force that causes stimulation of cellular changes. I think that the BRAVA system is in this category. (personally I feel this category can lead to the greatest AMOUNT of change.)
I think a really successful pe program can use the best of these two and produce fairly sustained expansion over a period of time.
Sounds reasonable to me, in theory at least.
I think that different guys respond differently to “plastic deformation.” I’m thinking not only of myself here but also our friend Lost Guitar, who seemed to do everthing possible to overcome his body’s structural integrity and ultimately lost the fight. Whether stretched tissue grows from plastic deformation seems to depend on more than just force and tissue strength. There are also the immune system and the body’s biochemical programming to contend with.