does wearing ankle weights and dangling off bed/seat stretch the knee cartilage or the microfractures (which are caused after sprinting, running, jumping, etc)

some people have different ideas about this routine. some say microfractures are impossible to stretch, and some say knee cartilages are impossible to stretch so..

any help?

none will be 'stretched'
microfractures cannot be seen as full fractures in which case one could pull the broken bones apart, creating space.
growth in knee cartilage does not take place, if it would, you wouldn't be able to walk.
growth in the cartilage of the 2 growth plates above and under the knee joint does not happen by stretching them, it occurs only when hgh stimulates growth inside the cartilage.

I started using ankle weights and since i'm small and skinny I use 2.5 pound weights and dangle them off the bed in my free time or when I sleep. I got this idea when I read of another guy who tried this and he was only about 5'2" and within a few months grew to be almost 6 feet. He did sprints around the block and took multivitamin which is pretty much the same routine i'm doing right now along with ALOT of stretching. But I don't know if just 2.5 pounds weights can help me much. What do you think?

oh please, that's 25 cm.. as if you could just grow 25 cm in your lower legs in a few months from a routine like that... even if it were lower + upper legs that grew a total of 25 cm.. you'd look like a circus act. BS.
i'm sorry i have to be so negative but you have to be realistic about this sort of stuff.

yea. heer seba is correct on that point. he cant have gained 25cm on legs only and also in a few months. even a growth spurt cant do that = ..=

well okay. thx for your help heer =]

Well I can send you the link if you don't believe me. The guy was posting pictures of his height increase. And I said he did other exercises not just the ankle weights smart one.

you should've given us the link from the beginning. no one would've contradicted you in the first place

and did you mean that that guy did the stretching? thought you were referring to yourself

and dont get me wrong. i would hope that this story was true so i could get some motivation, just that he increased by a lot so it seems unbelieveable. so yea it would be nice if you give us the link.

I found the link.. hes not lying http://www.easyheight.com/vulcrum.htm

Isn't being so rough on your shins bad for you if you're still like 16-18?

that's vulcrum. he only grew 2.5 inches. fallslikerain is saying that this person grew around 10 inches from stretching and ankle weights in the span of a few months. i believe he is a complete bs artist