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[–] SplashJackson 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So we are not gonna talk about the tibia and fibula fractures on the first image?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Fragile ego

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Nice butt though, could be worse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Ahh my back. I need money to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That explains why I haven't been able to bend over today without yelling in pain

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

My accountant if I could afford one: my god how do you still have a back!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Finances is an emotion? ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This might've been written by a rich person. Those are all work related injuries and need treatment to enable a better quality of life. The CEO doesn't want to pay for treatment, so they paid a desparate lab assistant somewhere to write up some "studies".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Ahhhh the beautiful pseudoscience of psychosomatics.

It’s like astrology for medicine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-7-chakras-and-what-they-mean-7106518

Edit: Did someone take this literally and sincerely? In a science community?

[–] Ghostwurm 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ham for the throat chakra, seems to check out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I did not expect a reference to oral porking in a Chakra infogram.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sociodemographic differences in low back pain: which subgroups of workers are most vulnerable?

[..]lower educational attainment as well as having a lower income are also associated with a greater likelihood of having LBP

https://bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12891-024-07970-5