Grow taller ( microfracture explained )
In this blog, I will primarily discuss the microfracture method and the evidence supporting it, providing fully detailed information on how it works.
Let’s address this thoroughly. Wolff’s Law explains that bones adapt to the forces they experience—compressive, tensile, or directional. Most people believe that for bones to grow in length, you must apply tensile force directly to the bone itself. However, this oversimplification ignores the crucial role of fascia in influencing bone adaptation.
Instead of thinking critically and connecting the dots, people often take surface-level knowledge, find one weak point, and dismiss the entire method as "cope." This dismissive attitude overlooks key biomechanical principles like mechanotransduction and how fascia tension indirectly stimulates bone growth.
Here’s the foundation: According to the law of mechanotransduction, when fascia or adipose tissue is stretched or favored in a specific direction, the bone adapts in that same direction through osteoblast activity. Fascia, the connective tissue surrounding muscles and bones, isn’t just a passive structure—it actively influences bone remodeling.
When you stretch fascia, it creates tensile forces that are transmitted to the periosteum (the outer layer of the bone). This stimulates osteoblasts to align with the axis of the stretch. When osteoblasts align in a specific direction, they lay down bone tissue in the same orientation, guiding the bone to grow along that axis.
The Microfracture Method Explained
The microfracture method combines two powerful processes:
Controlled Microfractures: These trigger the bone’s natural repair process, stimulating osteoblast activity to rebuild and strengthen the bone.
Directional Fascia Stretching: By suspending the shin bones (using ankle weights and an Off-the-Bed, or OTB, setup), you create vertical tension in the fascia. This tension indirectly applies force to the bone, aligning osteoblast activity along the same axis as the stretch, promoting longitudinal growth.
Why OTB is Essential
OTB, or "Off-the-Bed," involves sitting in a position where your shin bones are suspended in the air while wearing ankle weights. This setup achieves two key things:
Eliminates Gravity’s Compression: Suspending the bones removes the downward compressive force from gravity, which would otherwise counteract elongation.
Creates Vertical Fascia Tension: The ankle weights pull downward, stretching the fascia along the length of the shin. This vertical stretch transmits tensile force indirectly to the bone, signaling osteoblasts to align with the axis of tension.
When the osteoblasts align with the vertical axis created by fascia tension, they deposit new bone tissue in the same direction. This alignment is crucial—it ensures that bone growth happens longitudinally, increasing length instead of thickness.
The Science Behind Alignment
The alignment of osteoblasts with the axis of tension is a critical concept. Osteoblasts are highly responsive to the mechanical environment around them. When tensile force is applied directionally (through fascia), the osteoblasts orient themselves along that direction, laying down bone tissue to match.
This process is why fascia manipulation is so important in the microfracture method. Without this directional guidance, osteoblast activity would be random, leading to unstructured growth. But when the tension is controlled and aligned, the bone adapts precisely along the desired axis.
Why This Method is Misunderstood
Many people dismiss the microfracture method because they can’t see past traditional ideas. They believe growth requires direct tensile force on the bone, ignoring how fascia interacts with bone through mechanotransduction. Instead of exploring these connections, they focus on disproving one part of the method and label it as “cope.”
But if you understand the science, the method makes perfect sense:
Microfractures stimulate osteoblast activity, kickstarting the bone’s natural repair and remodeling process.
Fascia stretching applies indirect tensile force to the bone, creating a biomechanical environment where osteoblasts align and guide growth along the axis of tension.
OTB ensures the tension is directional and removes opposing forces, allowing the bone to grow in length rather than thickness.
Think Critically, Connect the Dots
This method isn’t about rejecting Wolff’s Law; it’s about expanding on it. Wolff’s Law explains how bones adapt to forces, but the microfracture method builds on this by incorporating mechanotransduction and fascia’s role in aligning osteoblasts.
The skeptics don’t want to think critically or connect the dots. They hear something, look for a flaw, and dismiss the whole concept. But science isn’t about clinging to surface-level knowledge—it’s about exploring new ideas and understanding how different systems interact.
If you want results, focus on proper fascia manipulation techniques like OTB. The best way to apply tensile force to the bone isn’t direct—it’s through fascia. By aligning osteoblasts with the axis of tension, you create a controlled, science-backed environment for longitudinal bone growth. This is how the microfracture method works, and it’s time people started thinking outside the box to see it.
Microfractures method refers to the method of creating small microscopic cracks within the bone and then using OTB to achieve directional force through the fascia and cause tension on the bone. For a better explanation check out
here’s how to perform this method
**Create Microfractures**
Creating microfractures is generally pretty easy, start by performing Masai jumps or even normal jumps right before otb.
* 500 jumps
* Gradually increase jump or add ankle weights
**OTB (off the bed)**
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