Disturbing Case Study Shows Why You Should Never Use a Massage Gun Near Your Eyes

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.

“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.

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

The irony is that the people those warnings are written for, are the same people who would never read them.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if we just get rid of all logical warning signs.

What we compiling?

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.

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.

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.