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Uppland

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Will soft tissue be lengthened along with the bone in the near future?
« on: June 15, 2015, 06:52:57 PM »
One of the biggest obstacles on the path to recovery is short soft tissue. As I understand a technique that lengthens muscles, tendons, nerves etc. are not too far away.

Does anyone have any further information, is this feasable within this decade?
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Re: Will soft tissue be lengthened along with the bone in the near future?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2015, 07:20:45 PM »
Soft tissues have the property to stretch and thus lengthen during LL.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02492977#page-1
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Re: Will soft tissue be lengthened along with the bone in the near future?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2015, 07:56:32 PM »
And yet soft tissue is what limits us the most other than the biomechanical axis.

Also could you explain this part of the abstract to someone who is not versed in medecine?

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The responses of soft tissues to limb lengthening or stretching are: reduction in physiological slack, tissue migration from the adjacent region, stress relaxation (as occurs in viscoelastic materials), tissue formation, and tissue injuries.
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