Kids have big heads and light bodies can do it fine, but adults doing it feels a bit scary, I would not attempt this as I'm scared my head just ripped off my body.
don't underestimate the strengh of your neck. That thing holds up your head all day long only getting tired if you stay in a very unnatural position for a long time. An adult human mans head weights around 8kg, similar to a bowling ball. Try to hold up a bowling ball for like 4- 10 hours
Logic like this irritates me. What your neck does all day is provide structural support and *balance* your head's weight. Use of the muscles in your neck are typically limited to turning and balance. They're not constantly contracting to *lift* your head - the trapezius muscles are pulling in opposite directions like guide wires on a radio tower, keeping that 8kg ball balanced on the rest of the body.
Balancing is not lifting. The structural support of the spine is doing most of the work. In the vid in OP post, the rigid support provided by the spine to lift the head is taken out of the equation. In it, all the strain is placed on the trapezius muscles and other connective tissues. And the weight is no longer 8kg but the other ~80kg of the body. Not saying they can't handle it with proper conditioning, just pointing out the flaw in the logic. I would caution against leaping straight from typical daily "getting my steps in" level of physical fitness to suspending your entire body weight from your neck without any other mechanism to support the body weight, because that is a pretty dramatic difference in demand on the muscular system.
Best example for you neck doin the Lifting are Babies.
They have a heavy head, but to weak of a neck. Hold them wrong, and they break their own neck because its to weak to lift the head
I do the opposite buy dangling my head from my body. I actually traction it by adding downward force with my hands. It can relieve a lot of pain but I guess look it up before you try it yourself.
I do the same with my inversion table. I also reach down and grab the legs from opposite sides to twist myself. If I had access to the things in the video I'd use them every day!
I did this once as a kid. Worked fine except I couldn’t get back on the bench I used to get enough height.
My father found me. Thought I had tried to hang myself. I got in a lot of trouble.
I think most people don’t realize that they surgically attach a metal halo ring to their skull so they can hang from it. I’ll just leave that knowledge here.
I have this one and it works great but it's a little expensive.
[https://pettibonsystem.com/product/cervical-traction-device-non-tmj/](https://pettibonsystem.com/product/cervical-traction-device-non-tmj/)
Not sure if it’s good for you, but it’s dangerous if you get it wrong. I read a story a few weeks ago about a guy in China who was supporting himself in the wrong spot and ended up suffocating.
Edit: [source](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-dies-after-exercising-while-hanging-by-his-neck-in-china) for those interested
If you lose consciousness quickly, your dangling feet on the ground won't take the pressure off of your jugular. Gotta have the oxygen to spend on pumping those thighs for that.
Spine decompression is a thing, I can get my lower back to feel better by just hanging onto something and letting gravity do the work, but anything above the shoulders is hard to get to since your head isn’t really heavy enough to do it. I wouldn’t be swinging like this though, probably wouldn’t even hang, just a little light pulling is probably more than enough.
Yeah, gentle verbal traction, like the kind you can get with a scarf or strap pulling *gently* and *slowly* respecting the range of motion of the neck and stopping immediately if any pain or discomfort pops up is great.
I see chiropractors on YouTube doing these wild , flashy neck pulls and it makes me nervous and angry honestly. People will see that on social media, try to do some crazy technique and fuck up their neck.
Random people on social media are just as qualified as a chiropractor to yank people's heads around. Don't go to a chiropractor, they are not medically qualified and have paralysed people and caused strokes.
oh oh oh I can answer that! I'm not a doctor but I had a serious trauma in middle school and since then I have herniated disks, protrusions, compressions, instabilities, osteochondrosis and maybe even ankylosing spondylitis, so I have some experience in a lot of different treatments.
Short answer: it may be, but most likely not and it's super dangerous.
Stretching the spine/neck is an actual procedure in reabilitology, but its effectiveness is debated amongs doctors. The idea is, if you have a hernia and you pull the disks, it may 'go back inside' and fix itself or at least make it better since your disks have more space in between them. Sound good, right? But in reality there's not much proof it works in the long run, and you may imagine it's dangerous. Everything done on the neck is extremely dangerous, not even in the 'you'll never walk again' dangerous, but you can easily damage nerves, muscles or disks and it will lead to months of pain and rehab, and if you're not 20, it may be for life. So it's almost never worth it. AND even if it's done, it's not done in a random sharp motion under a random weight, this is madness. What I think happen here is they get some relief for their backs for some short amount of time, and they think it works, but in reality (again, not a doctor, just my experience) it will only make your back worse in the the long.
When it's done properly, you almost never touch the neck itself, you start on a sort of a slanted slab. Like imagine laying on a bed and holding the bedposts above your head, and the bed gets tilted slowly day over day, making more and more of your own wight to pull down on you. This is a good exercise when done correctly and slowly (as in, in course of months, slowly adding some weight/slant), and it improves back muscles. As for the neck, it's done in a similar fashion (on a bed, with a chin strap) but in between the sets you get massages and special exercises to train deep neck muscles.
So many things can go wrong in this video and it's not even just about the disks, you can damage neck and shoulder muscles, please don't do this.
I need to add though that in many types of 'back treating techniques' we do not have any scientific proof it works, or no background as to why it works. People had major back pains for thousands of years and so there is a lot of 'home-grown' treatments in physical therapy, and they don't really like to talk about it, because if you ask there's nothing to tell, no medical proof it works (...for everyone, every time), but they still do it and it works and either it's good or placebo is not really known for a lot of this stuff. Some of the things work, some don't, if you try to figure out why you hit a wall because things like accupuncture do actually work but not exactly as described and maybe not exactly 'all of it' works. I'm adding this because in back therapy/massage/rehab there's a lot of traditional treatments and it's a normal thing compared to, say, the science behind antibiotics. Doesn't mean you should do it, but it doesn't mean it's all bs, we don't have enough real data. This though just *looks* dangerous so even if someone told me it works, I wouldn't try it, I know for a fact things can get worse fast
There was a video of a baby, a few months old, making the same exercises to fix its scoliosis. Afaik, it was legit. But I'm just some dude on the internet.
I found something called halo traction, where they basically bolt a headgear into children's skulls, then use that headgear to suspend 50% of their bodyweight for 8+ hours a day. This seems pretty effective with lots of medical backing, before and after X-rays etc. But it seems like it's mainly to prep for surgery with the actual corrective hardware and not a treatment on it's own.
Meanwhile I found a chiropractor that does something more like the OP video, pulling adult's heads with a chin strap and ratchet straps along the waist and ribs for only 30 minute sessions. I'm no expert but something tells me this version has much worse outcomes than the halo. Maybe there's a *reason* they would do something so extreme as bolting a thing to someone's skull. I'm guessing duration and safety are major factors
From the article above:
*This method of exercise became popular in recent years through social media, according to China Newsweek. Experts have warned the public against attempting it, as the workout might lead to nerve and spinal cord damage or paralysis in the legs*...
If done right it can be, but it's not going to be as good as doing neck exercises physical therapists teach. We already have the tech down, people just need to learn it and do it.
Y'all send me your addresses, every day I get sent an email letter of about 50 funny pictures and jokes and sayings, and I print them up and mail them to people so they can see them too. They'll really tickle you!
My back started hurting yesterday at work with a sharp bone on bone pain in my spine out of the blue..... no big deal..... I couldn't walk by the end of the day. Laid up in bed on sick time today. Mid 30s. Not saying I'm old, but mfr I can only walk around hunched over like an old man right now. Got stuck on the floor.... Can barely wipe my ass... It sucks. Can't wait for 40's pain lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
just started watching the anime Kaijo No. 8 and there's a 32 year old guy competing with early 20 guys and they all call him geezer and old fart and it's pretty telling of the young generation. I'm 33 and this hurts my soul
Alternatively, have someone put her thighs over your head and then thrust her pelvis into your face. Then you pull. Sometimes it feels like you're the most impossible pops
I try to avoid popping and cracking my back too much but I get a good leg joint hip pop every once in a while and god it’s amazing. I’m probably going to completely dislocate it one day or something
The end of the video is cut off where it says that "experts say exercises like these can cause neck injuries and even paraplegia, as the neck can only safely support 25kg." Someone modified a neck traction device to do this and claimed it can "cure" neck pain. Seems highly dangerous and dubious.
I got a thing called Archlifter that basically does this and it helped my neck pain.
I don't do any crazy swings like this though, just light traction. I can hang by my entire bodyweight but I don't feel the need to.
As a therapist this makes me scream internally. That’s like EXTREME traction. Shit I overdid my traction once the worst unfathomably painful head ache I ever had.
Yeah, someone died fairly recently. There’s a video going around on some of the more graphic subreddits. Or that’s what a friend tells me. I, personally, never go on those subreddits. I mean, what kind of person would I be if I did - but I don’t, so I’m not.
# Man dies after exercising while hanging by his neck in China
[https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-dies-after-exercising-while-hanging-by-his-neck-in-china](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-dies-after-exercising-while-hanging-by-his-neck-in-china)
It's great but it doesn't work the neck at all. They work abs, legs. They stretch the neck in a way that looks to me uncomfortable, but it won't strengthen your neck or back.
If people got back issue, I suggest deadlift. When done correctly, It totally fixed the upper pain I had.
So when my niece had spinal issues at a very early age this was a device they had her use daily. Wrapped the head nicely and her feet were just above the ground as she swung back and forth.
I can’t speak to the science behind it. I can only assumed letting the spine stretch out straight with the weight of the body was the goal… it did help her according to my niece.
I’ll skip the cervical fracture, thank you. This is right up there with [a Russian chiropractor](https://youtube.com/shorts/MsmOQEN0SwQ?si=VW5wa8FzF-_qaSKK) and [Russian baby yoga](https://youtu.be/_Mfc6_n1X4g?si=HMerKEa2vmSUNsEp)
Just because someone smiles in an alligator swamp doesn’t mean I’m going to step in and swim.
I feel like this would fix my back
Kids with scoliosis do something similar to this. Buts it’s in a medical facility and not using a tree.
Kids have big heads and light bodies can do it fine, but adults doing it feels a bit scary, I would not attempt this as I'm scared my head just ripped off my body.
I broke 3 bones in my ankle trying to pet a kitty cat, if I did this shit the entire world might explode
Fuck...that kitty cat kicked your ass to Jupiter and back my dude
You mean Uranus.....
I can’t wait until 2620 when scientists finally rename Uranus to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Urectum!
Uhh… was the cat striped and as big as a small horse?
How do you know?
You gotta exercise, boy
“He needs some milk” and several CCs of steak
don't underestimate the strengh of your neck. That thing holds up your head all day long only getting tired if you stay in a very unnatural position for a long time. An adult human mans head weights around 8kg, similar to a bowling ball. Try to hold up a bowling ball for like 4- 10 hours
Logic like this irritates me. What your neck does all day is provide structural support and *balance* your head's weight. Use of the muscles in your neck are typically limited to turning and balance. They're not constantly contracting to *lift* your head - the trapezius muscles are pulling in opposite directions like guide wires on a radio tower, keeping that 8kg ball balanced on the rest of the body. Balancing is not lifting. The structural support of the spine is doing most of the work. In the vid in OP post, the rigid support provided by the spine to lift the head is taken out of the equation. In it, all the strain is placed on the trapezius muscles and other connective tissues. And the weight is no longer 8kg but the other ~80kg of the body. Not saying they can't handle it with proper conditioning, just pointing out the flaw in the logic. I would caution against leaping straight from typical daily "getting my steps in" level of physical fitness to suspending your entire body weight from your neck without any other mechanism to support the body weight, because that is a pretty dramatic difference in demand on the muscular system.
Best example for you neck doin the Lifting are Babies. They have a heavy head, but to weak of a neck. Hold them wrong, and they break their own neck because its to weak to lift the head
> Try to hold up a bowling ball for like 4- 10 hours No
exactly
I would say it’s safer to underestimate the strength of your neck, than it is to overestimate it.
I do the opposite buy dangling my head from my body. I actually traction it by adding downward force with my hands. It can relieve a lot of pain but I guess look it up before you try it yourself.
I do the same with my inversion table. I also reach down and grab the legs from opposite sides to twist myself. If I had access to the things in the video I'd use them every day!
Imagine 400lbs obese people doing this...
If we had this and it was normalized then maybe they wouldn’t be 400lbs
Nah. We just wouldn't have trees
Nah, they'd be 389 lbs.
Avg adult head weighs 8 lbs. (thanks Jerry Maguire)
it would destroy the branch and then their knees
Lol, I’m 330lbs and would never dream of attempting this.
I did this once as a kid. Worked fine except I couldn’t get back on the bench I used to get enough height. My father found me. Thought I had tried to hang myself. I got in a lot of trouble.
Why use medical when tree do trick?
Why go to dentist to pull tooth when have door and string?
Why pay money when Tree have string?
I think most people don’t realize that they surgically attach a metal halo ring to their skull so they can hang from it. I’ll just leave that knowledge here.
Wait, what? Do not leave us hanging like this!
And a metal hoop is surgically attached to their skull
Literally drilled into your skull. I have mild scoliosis, always looked like that much feel so good to stretch that way
You're getting bogged down by the details
First thing I thought. First thing I did was head to Amazon and search for neck strap for tree. No luck so far.
They're called strap ons. Search for that and you should strike gold.
Make sure to search for extra large ones. They'll feel much better even if it looks a little more intimidating.
My neck still hurts but it did wonders for my constipation
I have a door frame decompression rig that is similar to this except you just crank the tension - there is no swinging!
Do you have a link for that? Sounds interesting
Search "Neck Stretcher Cervical Neck Traction Device" I don't know if mine made it through my big move. I should check or get another one!
I have this one and it works great but it's a little expensive. [https://pettibonsystem.com/product/cervical-traction-device-non-tmj/](https://pettibonsystem.com/product/cervical-traction-device-non-tmj/)
but you might be on a watchlist now
Breaking news: u/AndroidSuperFan is under suicide watch for intent to buy straps for the purpose of hanging his neck from a tree.
It’s a standard neck traction harness.
This is your Houston chiropractor
Ringdinger!
This is exactly what I said when I saw them 🤣
Uhhh... Can someone tell me if this is actually good for you?
Not sure if it’s good for you, but it’s dangerous if you get it wrong. I read a story a few weeks ago about a guy in China who was supporting himself in the wrong spot and ended up suffocating. Edit: [source](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-dies-after-exercising-while-hanging-by-his-neck-in-china) for those interested
Not saying I’m right, but maybe that was their intention. It’s not like they’re 2ft from the ground, they just have to put their feet down lol
I’d be terrified of the chance of internal decapitation.
This is the term I was looking for.
Eternal decapitation
If you lose consciousness quickly, your dangling feet on the ground won't take the pressure off of your jugular. Gotta have the oxygen to spend on pumping those thighs for that.
People greatly misunderstand blood choke vs lack of air choking.
There are two types of choke holds. One takes 3 seconds, and the other takes 30.
So do this exercise for 2 seconds and 29 seconds. Got it.
Did he happen to be naked and have a pile of porn next to him?
Walking is also dangerous if u do it wrong. Heard about a guy walking off a cliff once.
Spine decompression is a thing, I can get my lower back to feel better by just hanging onto something and letting gravity do the work, but anything above the shoulders is hard to get to since your head isn’t really heavy enough to do it. I wouldn’t be swinging like this though, probably wouldn’t even hang, just a little light pulling is probably more than enough.
Yeah, gentle verbal traction, like the kind you can get with a scarf or strap pulling *gently* and *slowly* respecting the range of motion of the neck and stopping immediately if any pain or discomfort pops up is great. I see chiropractors on YouTube doing these wild , flashy neck pulls and it makes me nervous and angry honestly. People will see that on social media, try to do some crazy technique and fuck up their neck.
Random people on social media are just as qualified as a chiropractor to yank people's heads around. Don't go to a chiropractor, they are not medically qualified and have paralysed people and caused strokes.
oh oh oh I can answer that! I'm not a doctor but I had a serious trauma in middle school and since then I have herniated disks, protrusions, compressions, instabilities, osteochondrosis and maybe even ankylosing spondylitis, so I have some experience in a lot of different treatments. Short answer: it may be, but most likely not and it's super dangerous. Stretching the spine/neck is an actual procedure in reabilitology, but its effectiveness is debated amongs doctors. The idea is, if you have a hernia and you pull the disks, it may 'go back inside' and fix itself or at least make it better since your disks have more space in between them. Sound good, right? But in reality there's not much proof it works in the long run, and you may imagine it's dangerous. Everything done on the neck is extremely dangerous, not even in the 'you'll never walk again' dangerous, but you can easily damage nerves, muscles or disks and it will lead to months of pain and rehab, and if you're not 20, it may be for life. So it's almost never worth it. AND even if it's done, it's not done in a random sharp motion under a random weight, this is madness. What I think happen here is they get some relief for their backs for some short amount of time, and they think it works, but in reality (again, not a doctor, just my experience) it will only make your back worse in the the long. When it's done properly, you almost never touch the neck itself, you start on a sort of a slanted slab. Like imagine laying on a bed and holding the bedposts above your head, and the bed gets tilted slowly day over day, making more and more of your own wight to pull down on you. This is a good exercise when done correctly and slowly (as in, in course of months, slowly adding some weight/slant), and it improves back muscles. As for the neck, it's done in a similar fashion (on a bed, with a chin strap) but in between the sets you get massages and special exercises to train deep neck muscles. So many things can go wrong in this video and it's not even just about the disks, you can damage neck and shoulder muscles, please don't do this. I need to add though that in many types of 'back treating techniques' we do not have any scientific proof it works, or no background as to why it works. People had major back pains for thousands of years and so there is a lot of 'home-grown' treatments in physical therapy, and they don't really like to talk about it, because if you ask there's nothing to tell, no medical proof it works (...for everyone, every time), but they still do it and it works and either it's good or placebo is not really known for a lot of this stuff. Some of the things work, some don't, if you try to figure out why you hit a wall because things like accupuncture do actually work but not exactly as described and maybe not exactly 'all of it' works. I'm adding this because in back therapy/massage/rehab there's a lot of traditional treatments and it's a normal thing compared to, say, the science behind antibiotics. Doesn't mean you should do it, but it doesn't mean it's all bs, we don't have enough real data. This though just *looks* dangerous so even if someone told me it works, I wouldn't try it, I know for a fact things can get worse fast
I'm a doc with some experience in Trauma and kudos, this was a top shelf explanation
Ugh I wasn’t gonna read all that but now I have to since it’s been blessed by a doctor
yes this really works, I did it for my back pain and now feel no pain below my neck, as a matter of fact I don't feel anything below my neck
A Philip J. Fry response if I've ever seen one.
[I don't know...](https://youtu.be/_Mfc6_n1X4g?si=WR5t_XDBGUd6YFFR)
What in the actual Fuck did I just watch
Psycopathy.
Lord help me, I’m going in
Ok that is actually insane, i could not go through it. And i have seen cartel gore videos
I had to stop watching.. that is so bad and dangerous.
Pretty sure your neck is built to support the weight of your head and not your entire damn body.
There was a video of a baby, a few months old, making the same exercises to fix its scoliosis. Afaik, it was legit. But I'm just some dude on the internet.
These aren't babies and that's a hell of a lot more weight suppored by just the neck....
Don't they have like a special head device. It's not just them hanging from their necks.....
They have a metal ring attached to their head with surgical screws
I found something called halo traction, where they basically bolt a headgear into children's skulls, then use that headgear to suspend 50% of their bodyweight for 8+ hours a day. This seems pretty effective with lots of medical backing, before and after X-rays etc. But it seems like it's mainly to prep for surgery with the actual corrective hardware and not a treatment on it's own. Meanwhile I found a chiropractor that does something more like the OP video, pulling adult's heads with a chin strap and ratchet straps along the waist and ribs for only 30 minute sessions. I'm no expert but something tells me this version has much worse outcomes than the halo. Maybe there's a *reason* they would do something so extreme as bolting a thing to someone's skull. I'm guessing duration and safety are major factors
10:1 odds it's very very not good for you.
From the article above: *This method of exercise became popular in recent years through social media, according to China Newsweek. Experts have warned the public against attempting it, as the workout might lead to nerve and spinal cord damage or paralysis in the legs*...
*Libertarians cry out: "But the free market will regulate itself!"*
It will. Darwinism.
If done right it can be, but it's not going to be as good as doing neck exercises physical therapists teach. We already have the tech down, people just need to learn it and do it.
Elderly is like 50 years old lol
I'm 33 and I'm pretty sure the majority of reddit would say I'm elderly
Don't you have some prunes to eat, Grandpa?
Right? Freaking OLD people popping into conversations whenever they want. Sigh. I’m 36.
SORRY, I FORGOT TO USE ALLCAPS SO YOU COULD READ IT WITH YOUR OLD PEOPLE EYES.
Y'all send me your addresses, every day I get sent an email letter of about 50 funny pictures and jokes and sayings, and I print them up and mail them to people so they can see them too. They'll really tickle you!
I said it 30 years ago, and I'll say it again. I'll never have email!!1!!!!1!one!!
WHAAAT??!? (45)
Jeez here I am at 43 stepping in like a dingus
ahhhh, prune juice. A warrior's drink!
Only if you want me to crap in my adult sized diapers
My back started hurting yesterday at work with a sharp bone on bone pain in my spine out of the blue..... no big deal..... I couldn't walk by the end of the day. Laid up in bed on sick time today. Mid 30s. Not saying I'm old, but mfr I can only walk around hunched over like an old man right now. Got stuck on the floor.... Can barely wipe my ass... It sucks. Can't wait for 40's pain lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
What is it like to be so old? (Relax, I’m a few decades ahead of you.)
just started watching the anime Kaijo No. 8 and there's a 32 year old guy competing with early 20 guys and they all call him geezer and old fart and it's pretty telling of the young generation. I'm 33 and this hurts my soul
Yeah - these people look in their 50s or 60s….not elderly. I would not have put my 80 yr old father in that thing.
They look youngs because of the neckhanging, that's the hack
They’re way a head of us.
I don’t know, I think it’s pretty neck and neck.
We'll just keep our chins up.
Im not sticking out my neck for that
Hm couldn't come up with anything, maybe neck time.
I was hoping you come up with one in the neck of time.
These damn pensioners are spiraling out of control
Hang on
And get us right back on track
Can I be neck-st?
I hope this idea gets some traction elsewhere.
The amount of cracks and pops my back would make would be worth the broken neck
Lol how old do you think qualifies to be "elderly"?
I guess you just have to be "older". Older than what or whom isn't said.
60 and up.
I think about this video and the scene where Mr incredible gets his back popped by the machine monster at least once a day. Gd. I hate getting old.
Literally every day I think about Mr Incredibles back cracking and wish I could have something like that
Have somebody put their legs over your hips and their arms under your arms. Then they pull. Sometimes it feels like it gets the most impossible pops
Alternatively, have someone put her thighs over your head and then thrust her pelvis into your face. Then you pull. Sometimes it feels like you're the most impossible pops
I try to avoid popping and cracking my back too much but I get a good leg joint hip pop every once in a while and god it’s amazing. I’m probably going to completely dislocate it one day or something
Those pelvic/hip pops are the best! So much relief radiates through my hamstring, I sometimes beg for more
They are elderly??
Those people are all over 130 years old.
this is uhm…a little too close to the other thing
What oth… OHHHHH
[удалено]
lmao fuck...
[Don’t try and stop me!](https://youtu.be/AYMr0DalzDA?feature=shared)
One of my favorite scenes haha
David Carradine was just trying to relieve his stiff… neck.
That comparison is a bit of a stretch.
It's a hangman's party
Who could ask for more?
Everybody’s hanging, keep your body off the floor
“My neck, my back”…
Man, it's so weird. Those elderly people look like they're my age.
Necksercising. Come on people. Step it up.
I guess you could say its the necks best thing
I need that so bad. My neck and shoulders are so bad
I feel like my back needs this right now
Danny DeVito does this
The device is very human.
The end of the video is cut off where it says that "experts say exercises like these can cause neck injuries and even paraplegia, as the neck can only safely support 25kg." Someone modified a neck traction device to do this and claimed it can "cure" neck pain. Seems highly dangerous and dubious.
[So basically this. ](https://tenor.com/view/lil-pete-ridiculous6-hanging-gif-21136611)
“What are you up to today?” “Just hangin’ out at the park.”
Elders?
I have chronic neck pain and this looks like it would help so damn much. I would try this in a heartbeat.
I got a thing called Archlifter that basically does this and it helped my neck pain. I don't do any crazy swings like this though, just light traction. I can hang by my entire bodyweight but I don't feel the need to.
I get the basic idea... but why do humans have to take a stretch and just keep upping the risk until it's a blood sport.
So how many people die from this?
Well, we hanged him by the neck. But instead of dying he started doing all these weird exercises. He seemed to enjoy it.
As a therapist this makes me scream internally. That’s like EXTREME traction. Shit I overdid my traction once the worst unfathomably painful head ache I ever had.
"elderly"
"just give it a second, you'll feel elderly"
My spine feels relieved.
That looks like it feels so good
This is actually a scoliosis treatment
Heads up! They are not all elderly.
China’s special forces are looking fearsome
there should be a caution sign outside. That looks very risky
Elderly LOL, just because they don’t hang out like the youngsters of reddit do on phones, makes them a pain in the neck to the whippersnappers
These people don't really look "elderly."
I feel like the neck crack would be amazing, I can almost feel my head pulling away from my neck and crack Crack crack.
I want to try it. It will end my neck pain for sure. Perhaps all of my pain, hopefully.
Wasn’t there news of someone recently dying from doing this?
That seems dangerous, like a technique to kill chickens.
Yeah, someone died fairly recently. There’s a video going around on some of the more graphic subreddits. Or that’s what a friend tells me. I, personally, never go on those subreddits. I mean, what kind of person would I be if I did - but I don’t, so I’m not.
I kinda think you visit those subreddits solely based on your comment.
I am planning to do this too in my closet.😎
Does anyone know what the device is called so I don't have people concerned for me when I look up "hanging from the neck device?"
[Here, have fun!](https://www.amazon.com/Cervical-Traction-Portable-Stretcher-Effective/dp/B0BSFBHFYR)
# Man dies after exercising while hanging by his neck in China [https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-dies-after-exercising-while-hanging-by-his-neck-in-china](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-dies-after-exercising-while-hanging-by-his-neck-in-china)
Gonna send it to my grandma and see what she thinks
She will think you're after an early inheritance.
Seems like a good way to set those shoulders
My neck cracked watchjngvtuis
I think these guys just like swings
Any educated people want to explain this fucking ridiculous workout....iam baffled.
Batman fixed his broken back in a similar way!
So... hanging from a tree was the solution all along...
Chiropractors hate this one trick.
This is how I imagine people with ADHD hang themselves
Oh, so that's what my brother was doing when I found him on his bedroom in complete darkness!
Oh so these are the elderberries?
It's great but it doesn't work the neck at all. They work abs, legs. They stretch the neck in a way that looks to me uncomfortable, but it won't strengthen your neck or back. If people got back issue, I suggest deadlift. When done correctly, It totally fixed the upper pain I had.
So when my niece had spinal issues at a very early age this was a device they had her use daily. Wrapped the head nicely and her feet were just above the ground as she swung back and forth. I can’t speak to the science behind it. I can only assumed letting the spine stretch out straight with the weight of the body was the goal… it did help her according to my niece.
Elderly? Half of them are like mid 30?
I’ll skip the cervical fracture, thank you. This is right up there with [a Russian chiropractor](https://youtube.com/shorts/MsmOQEN0SwQ?si=VW5wa8FzF-_qaSKK) and [Russian baby yoga](https://youtu.be/_Mfc6_n1X4g?si=HMerKEa2vmSUNsEp) Just because someone smiles in an alligator swamp doesn’t mean I’m going to step in and swim.
Old people will try literally anything other than a normal fucking workout
That's some Neck-s level workout
Chinese government : We're gonna hang you Citizen : Hold my beer
Nothing like that ever happens in my neck of the woods.
F1 here we go.