Confirmation that the LSJL scientists believed it can cause height growth

Here's a grant submitted by Ping Zhang that was proposed to do research on whether LSJL could cause adult height growth!

Load-Driven Bone Lengthening

"The long-term objective of the proposed project is to understand the mechanism of load-driven bone lengthening. Although distraction osteogenesis is effective to treat the patients with limb length discrepancy, this invasive procedure occasionally generates problems such as premature consolidation, delayed union, and infection. In order to investigate a possibility of load-driven non-invasive therapy[like LSJL], we will focus on knee loading a form of joint loading modalities. We address a set of questions:
(1) Does knee loading enhance proliferation of chondrocytes in the growth plate and lengthen the proliferative and hypertrophic zones in the distal femur and the proximal tibia[if knee loading can cause differentiation of stem cells into chondrocytes it can cause new height growth]?
(2) Is the lengthening effect dependent on ages[will it work on adults?]?
(3) Does injection of insulin growth factor-2 (IGF-2) into the growth plate enhance the loading effects?
We hypothesize
 (a) Lateral loads, applied to the knee with appropriate loading conditions, can lengthen both the femur and the tibia through stimulating proliferation of chondrocytes in the growth plate;
(b) Efficacy of load-driven bone lengthening is stronger in the youth than the elderly;
(c) The lengthening effect can be augmented in the elderly by injecting IGF-1 in the growth plate[so LSJL will work even in aged individuals!!!!  However, aged individuals do not have growth plates so maybe he means injecting IGF-1 into the bone marrow?  I will concede that based on some communications with Ping Zhang that he does not have excellent english skills so perhaps he used the wrong terminology].

In order to examine the above hypotheses, three specific aims are proposed using a hindlimb of C57BL/6 mice as a model system.

Evaluation of load-driven bone lengthening under varying mechanical conditions
Comparison of the loading effects among mice with varying ages
Effects of local administration of IGF-2 into the growth plate with and without knee loading.

We will use a custom-made piezoelectric mechanical loader, and conduct bone histomorphometric and gene expression analyses using varying imaging modalities. The proposed study is expected to contribute to developing a non-invasive physical therapy for treatment of patients with limb length discrepancy.

The proposed project will contribute to examining a possibility of non-invasive physical therapy for treatment of patients with limb length discrepancy"

Here's the grant name to track it: Grant 1R03AR055322-01A1.

Here's a link with more info on the project.  It should be noted that a Salubrinal study is included as part of the grant.  So maybe Salubrinal does have an undisclosed effect on lengthening.

Here's Ping Zhang's research information.