Muscle belly fullness and shape after lengthening

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 5:48 pm

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The only area where I have not recovered strength yet is in my shoulders. Pull ups are difficult. As well as lifting things over my head. They insert the rod through the shoulder so I am sure that's why it's my weakest point but i'm confident I will regain strength there because I have seen improvements rapidly. Will keep you guys posted.

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 5:50 pm

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Is alphafrog the alpha dweeb then? Congrats bro

There's nothing necessarily wrong with fibrosis, it is probably just the tissue repairing itself. Scarring basically.

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 6:26 pm

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Of course it is, fibrosis means that the death of a cell is replaced by collagen. It's basically a portion of tissue that will never regain function and it's only filled up. Like a heart in a myocardial infarction, it's filled with fibrosis/scarring but it's becomes permanently impaired. Though for arms and legs a little fibrosis won't mean anything in everyday life, but if it's too much you will permanently lose strength.

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 6:49 pm

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Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on May 11, 2017, 06:26:22 PMOf course it is, fibrosis means that the death of a cell is replaced by collagen. It's basically a portion of tissue that will never regain function and it's only filled up. Like a heart in a myocardial infarction, it's filled with fibrosis/scarring but it's becomes permanently impaired. Though for arms and legs a little fibrosis won't mean anything in everyday life, but if it's too much you will permanently lose strength.

I cut almost half of my tenar muscles last year. Power recovered 100%. The body is pretty darn good with adapting and compensating

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 6:58 pm

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It makes you lose strength? !

I cut open my left arm right down to the tendon a couple of years ago and the bicep seems a little smaller than it was before, although the strength seems to have recovered OK.

That said I've not done very much with it lol

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 8:17 pm

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Of course that's what fibrosis mean. If you recover 100% it's because of your body adaptation and functional reserve (other structure compensate for the loss). For example, if you lose a kidney that doesn't mean you will be in renal failure. What I mean is that fibrosis is not good and while a little will not impact too much on you, if it is extensive your body won't compensate and there will be loss of function.

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 8:44 pm

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I see, so is it normal that it happens to your muscles after limb lengthening, and does it somewhat compensate for the soft tissue damage?

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Posted on May 11, 2017, 8:50 pm

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The only way to know if it is indeed fibrosis is to take a biopsy from his muscle tissue. I don't think he wanna do that.

In the end, if his functionality has returned 100% in the hypertrophic areas, it shouldn't matter how much is fibrosis and how much is actual muscle growth

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Posted on May 20, 2017, 4:32 pm

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So would an increment of 5 cm in my humerus bones cause this phenomenon? And what exactly does it affect?

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