You pull strings tight round your wrist, and cause your hand to tingle from the loss of blood. And then you stop, you release the cord, the chain, whatever it is you have, and let your hand return to normal. Maybe you caused slight indents on your wrist, that fade within moments. Maybe you didn't. You didn't actually hurt yourself, just caused the world to feel different for a little bit.
Doing that can cause permanent damage if it's done at such sensitive and non-padded (skin and bone, very little muscle or fat) spots as wrists. Especially chains are a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea; they can pinch nerves and cause nerve damage, which can cause either chronic, persistent pain or a loss of sensation in the area that that nerve covers (which, in your hands, is obviously an important area for touch sensation). Cutting off circulation at all is not a good thing by any stretch of the imagination (it causes cell death through loss of oxygen, blood clots in the bloodstream that can travel and do bad things elsewhere, etc.), but doing it at a hard point on your body, especially joints, is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad juju. Nerve damage can't be repaired.
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on 2007-12-09 12:38 pm (UTC)You pull strings tight round your wrist, and cause your hand to tingle from the loss of blood. And then you stop, you release the cord, the chain, whatever it is you have, and let your hand return to normal. Maybe you caused slight indents on your wrist, that fade within moments. Maybe you didn't. You didn't actually hurt yourself, just caused the world to feel different for a little bit.
Doing that can cause permanent damage if it's done at such sensitive and non-padded (skin and bone, very little muscle or fat) spots as wrists. Especially chains are a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea; they can pinch nerves and cause nerve damage, which can cause either chronic, persistent pain or a loss of sensation in the area that that nerve covers (which, in your hands, is obviously an important area for touch sensation). Cutting off circulation at all is not a good thing by any stretch of the imagination (it causes cell death through loss of oxygen, blood clots in the bloodstream that can travel and do bad things elsewhere, etc.), but doing it at a hard point on your body, especially joints, is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad juju. Nerve damage can't be repaired.