In the information age, we all know what screen-induced eye strain feels like.
One Edinburgh man decided he'd had enough and took a novel approach to relieving his eyestrain.
A massage gun!
I don't know if you've ever used one of these things.
But they feel a lot like getting jack-hammered by a miniature Bruce Lee.
So, imagine that in your eyeball.
ArsTechnica reports that the man was seen by ophthalmologists after complaining of an increasing number of floaters and flashing lights in his vision. When they took a look, his eyes were a mess:
In his right eye, he had multiple retinal tears, widespread retinal bruising, and a condition called retinal dialysis — a retinal break at a junction in the front of the eye — that is usually seen after a significant eye injury. In his left eye, he had more widespread bruising and six full-thickness rips in his retina.
The man had been using the massage gun around and on his eyes several minutes per day for three months.
The gun would have rapidly compressed the eyeballs back, causing them to squish out from the sides, which is thought to lead to retinal dialysis.
The doctors were able to mend the tears with laser therapy, and at his six month appointment, the man still had his vision — a minor miracle.
However, it was such a novel way to injure one's eyeballs, that the doctors wrote the case up for the medical journals, so the Edinburgh man will live on in infamy as the first person treated for repeatedly bonking themself in the eyes on purpose with a massage gun.
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