Quote from: Kotiki on August 14, 2018, 08:26:08 AMThat would be great! Let us know what they say.
Isn't it annoying how there are hyped up news about cures in all sorts of areas popping up every week, but in reality it means another decade of research and trials. Still, treatments to heal fractures might be developed soon, simply because fractures are an enormous burden on the society and public health. Nothing that will benefit cosmetic leg lengthening exclusively is going to get sufficient funding any time soon. But fractures affect a large proportion of population (car accidents, sports, falls in elderly). And it's a number one priority for orthopaedics.
If a break could be reliably healed even in 2 months, external tibias suddenly wouldn't look so bad.
That's what I'm guessing is stored in the future.
I don't think you can suddenly open a huge 6cm gap with distraction & fixating devices without causing huge soft tissue and possibly nerve damage, but I think we'll be seeing big reductions in the amount of time needed for distraction and healing (osteogenesis) - so much that it will be termed something else, as the distraction won't be the main part of the treatment. That's something that can be realistically expected, I think. The technology is expected to treat fractures and non-unions.