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rule #1: be kind
How does one even come to believe something so ridiculous as “using a percussive massage gun on my eyes will alleviate tiredness”? Like how does that idea get planted in your mind in the first place? How does it grow?
Rubbing your eyes a bit can make you feel a bit less tired, so obviously using a machine to rub your eyes a lot will make you feel a lot less tired. Brought to you by the school of I felt happier after two beers, so clearly I will feel ten times happier still if I drink twenty more beers.
You know when you are so tired you can't think straight? I guess you'd need to be this foggy to even entertain this as being an actual idea.
I think you also need to throw in tendencies towards self harm in there. Like you're not just tired, you want to beat your body into not being tired.
If it's a chronic pain then I can see that for sure, I've had times where I've just felt like putting my head through a wall would be the most effective relief. Walls are a lot sturdier than movies would have you believe
So an Amazon warehouse worker
“Getting repeatedly punched in the eye sockets by a high-powered handheld device is a bad idea” should be the default, but here we are.
I’m not even sure how it sounds appealing to be honest.
It worked when I repeatedly smashed my balls.
Seemed like a reasonable next place to go.
Because of balls. Eyeballs.
That tracks.
I love you.
Cool!
I bet it actually works, in the sense that injury can produce an adrenaline response.
The patient reported no awareness of any warnings in the operating instructions against ocular use.
You know when you read the warnings page of an instruction booklet and see what appears to be an extremely, unfathomably, utterly dumb thing and say "Come on... who does this? Nobody is that dumb!"
Remember, every warning sign is written because someone tried to do exactly that.
The irony is that the people those warnings are written for, are the same people who would never read them.
The warnings are there because of those people, but not for them. They are for the lawyers.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if we just get rid of all logical warning signs.
Lawsuits.
Compiling some code + scrolling Lemmy, so I am alt + tabbing and scrolling and in that hurry I read "Disturbing Case Study Shows Why You Should Never Massage Your Gun Near Your Eyes".
What we compiling?
The same thing we compile every night, Pinky.
HowToTakeOverTheWorld.exe
Stalwart email port for FreeBSD via poudriere. Stuck in Rust libraries.
I suppose some people needed to hear it
You can't know something until you've learn't it.
edit: "And he had gone all in on the approach too, doing it weekly for around three months, with each 'treatment' taking several minutes." He was actively testing an hypothesis.
Well, they won't be seeing it anyway.
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in all seriousness I hope they're ok though
Yeah, I didn't feel good about myself while writing that.
Well don't go give yourself an eye massager about it :P
Who could have imagined that punching your eyeballs with a high-power device a dozen times per second would be bad for them?
Even more interesting is the rhabdomyolysis caused by massage gun on the thighs deeper down in the article.
Wow so I read your link, and I don't see anywhere that it explicitly says it was caused by the massage gun, just that it occurred after use of one, and that it may have be the cause or at least contributed to it. Strenuous exercise seems to be a common cause, and since the reported case was someone training with a coach, strenuous exercise doesn't seem that far fetched. But you are correct that the OP article explicitly claims the massage gun caused the rhabdomyolysis.
I get wicked bad weather headaches and in the worst cases I've used a massage gun on the back of my head, which somehow helps alleviate the pressure, and on my jaw to help unlock it when the lower slips forward.
I hope my bi-montly massage gun use on my head doesn't detach my retinas...
Maybe don't
If you're not using it on or near your eyes, and on a low setting, and only every other month, then it's probably fine. This guy was using it directly on and around his eyes, weekly, for several minutes each time. Just pay attention and stop if it feels like it's affecting you in any negative way. This guy also started seeing lots of floaters before the retinal detachment.
Iono, this has "trust me bro" source energy. Vibrations are mechanical structure killers in many different contexts. I would try to find a safer alternative. Not all damage can be avoided, but reducing even light damage over time pays off.
OMG-!!
Also you could dislodge a kidney stone if you use it around your kidneys.