It was a preparation of viagra inserted vaginally rather than taken as a pill
The study was struggling for funding from the start and so only had 25 participants (it was intended to have 60 but many people couldn’t make the appointments due to their pain)
Part of the problem is that there’s no central funding agency (e.g. a charitable foundation) for menstrual pain, so they’re having to compete with every other health condition for funding
this is literally correct. im so mad that i cant find it right now, maybe i will later, but a few months ago i read a paper that was a report on a survey of k-tape use by sports medicine people and physical therapists, and 70% of them reported that they knew/had observed that k-tape does absolutely nothing, but that athletes are so superstitious that the PTs would use the tape anyway because it improved performance via placebo. the majority of studies on k-tape are either inconclusive or a very definite “this does absolutely nothing”.
i could see it maybe being useful specifically for proprioception due to pull sensation, and possibly in EDS patients where skin elasticity had something to do with muscle/joint stability and taping the surface provided more resistance. otherwise its less relevant to injury than prehistoric medical tatooing, at least the latter would involve microinjury with a needle, which we do have evidence to support lol
Oh oh lmao I have a similar thing I use sometimes for archery. It’s this:
It’s skintight as shown, very very tight, and against your skin each of those blue stripes is some kinda soft sticky material. Not adhesive, but it grabs the skin.
so speaking as a low level athlete in just the one sport, it’s a totally proprioceptive thing. The pull on my skin gives a sort of awareness of where that body part is - elbow, shoulder blade. I *want* to really move my back (good for an archer) because the shirt is subtly pulling in that direction.
Thus the net effect is that the pulling sensations sorta …hm…change what your brain expects to feel when you move, and just that little rattle onto a different mental track can be beneficial.
An example would be tapping on a different body part as a distraction when getting an injection - dreading that needle makes the pain Much worse, so v tapping elsewhere breaks up the dread and puts the needle pain back into perspective.
So for an athlete it’s perhaps like.. tension makes everything hurt worse, but especially an injury. The PT cannot force the athlete to stay relaxed, but they can tape a dodgy joint after stretching/flexing/therapeutically manipulating it (the actual beneficial process), at which point the feel of the tape becomes a reminder to the athlete to be careful and precise when moving that body part. Stay focused on form, stay relaxed, and you’ll be fine. And if they believe it..and fix whatever form error caused the injury.. they’ll probably be fine.
KT tape: psychology you can see!
HI generally this function of k-tape is called cueing, either for postural (proprioceptive) and or isometric/specific muscles or muscle groups
The cool thing w k-tape (and most things, including nutrition bioavailability) is that the placebo affect is both real and proven so it’s like. Rather than detracting from the efficacy, buying in/believing improves the treatment
Anyway compression sleeves/braces/garments/running tites/unitards do sort of the same thing (sensation on your body) to help you 1. Feel your body in space (proprioception) 2. Activate muscles you may be not using in concert with the movement like you want them to
Both of these models can be super helpful when correcting any favoring due to injury, or correcting poor form during exertion, same diff.
Beyond all of that, the superstition element - believing that it Will Help, also can do this really cool thing to help a person Trust their body, which can improve performance and pain sensations. Like, if you believe you’re going about your sport or general business with this magic scaffolding in place to help things work right and not hurt and heal, generally it will do so. This is different from dissociating from the pain of an injury, because it invites the person to accept and move with and listen to the body sensations, because you have this weird tape on you and you can feel the weird tape on you
Ok end rant i think it’s really cool how well k-tape can work and how Fully Believing practitioners think how it Must be Biomechanical this is Facts and Logic and Tendons but it’s definitely mostly sensation and belief and listening to your body in space
“landlords are bad because they don’t work” no. landlords are bad because they use the justice system and the police to render innocent people homeless. landlords are bad because they put barriers between living human beings and having shelter. landlords are bad because they hoard wealth and resources while their community suffers
enough with the ableist horseshit. nobody needs to work 40h a week to deserve to live
i love headcanoning old men as ftm. like considering fandom loves to equate being transmasc to being young no one will probably agree with me but i look into his eyes and see the wisdom only a post-menopausal man could provide
i love headcanoning old men as ftm. like considering fandom loves to equate being transmasc to being young no one will probably agree with me but i look into his eyes and see the wisdom only a post-menopausal man could provide
I know SEVERAL afab nonbinary people who, as soon as they came out as nonbinary - immediately began dressing in ridiculous hyper-femme outfits they never would have worn before. A lot of people see this and say shit like “Theyfab” or say they are only nonbinary for attention. After all, look how femme they are.
But to me, this makes perfect sense. When you are forced into the category of “woman” against your will, femininity is a chore. It’s a job that you have. As soon as you say no, I’m not a woman, suddenly femininity isn’t your job anymore. It’s not a requirement. It’s just a fun hobby you can get into. Or a little treat sometimes.
You know what, it’s been a few months so — I think it’s time to share Footnotes again! ✨
I wrote this when I was quite frankly losing my mind over people at best disagreeing with me and at worst attacking me when a poem didn’t precisely apply to their own feelings/experiences, and sometimes I still want to bang my head against a wall. You can probably sense my gritted teeth in the comments section sometimes, the comments section my family and friends occasionally and delicately tell me maybe I should not look at. But, I tell them, mostly there is good in there — good and thoughtful and uplifting. And that is why I still read the comments and face the negative every day — to get to that good. I am grateful for the good.
