Massage guns are the latest craze in a long history of ideas about vibration therapy that goes back to the ancient Greeks.
  • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    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?

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 days

      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.

    • 0li0li@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 days

      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.

      • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
        6 days

        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.

        • etherphon@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6 days

          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

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 days

      “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.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 days

      I bet it actually works, in the sense that injury can produce an adrenaline response.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
    6 days

    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.

  • nicgentile@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    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”.

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
      6 days

      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.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    Who could have imagined that punching your eyeballs with a high-power device a dozen times per second would be bad for them?

    • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
      5 days

      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.

  • sen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6 days

    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…

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6 days

      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.

      • username123@sh.itjust.works
        English
        6 days

        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.