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I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya. Electric underpants.
What I want to know is how many of you in The lounge have already ordered them? - LibE
"Smart e-Pants underwear deliver electric shocks to comatose patients to prevent bed sores"
By Alok Jha, The Guardian
Monday, October 15, 2012 13:01 EDT
"Scientists have developed underwear with built-in electrodes that deliver small electric shocks to combat bed sores in patients who are in a coma or who have injuries that have immobilised them.
At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans on Monday, they reported results from a trial of the Smart-e-Pants system, a way to reduce the incidence and costs of treating bed sores also known as pressure ulcers by electrically stimulating the buttock muscles of patients.
Sean Dukelow of the department of clinical neuroscience at the University of Calgary in Canada, who led the study, said the pants worked so well in the small trial that none of the patients involved got pressure ulcers for the month of the experiment. Most of them wanted to keep the device after they were done, he said.
Bed sores can be a devastating consequence for people already immobilised as a result of disease or accidental spinal injury. These often large, open wounds can take months to heal and, in extreme cases, can kill. Superman actor Christopher Reeve died as a result of an infected bed sore."
More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/15/smart-e-pants-underwear-deliver-electric-shocks-to-comatose-patients-to-prevent-bed-sores/
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)do I have to be comatose?
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)I also suspect one of the stores in LynnSin's Asian shopping directory stocks contraband Shocky Jockeys.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)American Union-made taint-tinglers only please.
ashling
(25,771 posts)ok, so there's no reward, but you get to use the remote control at the debate....he's talking out of his ass anyway!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)As in, you get an erection you get a shock...
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)laundry workers getting electrocuted while washing them.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Either dry-cleaning, or don't allow them to be taken off.