Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Canned spine

Did you know …

That the human spinal column is basically just a stack of soup cans? It’s true!

Obviously your vertebrae aren’t literally soup cans, made by US Soup Concerns Inc. or whatever, but they are essentially soup cans, for all intents and purposes. Treat them as you would a column of soup cans. Would you whack a stack of cans with a bat? No, not unless you want to get thrown out of the grocery store. Would you tilt that can column to a precarious angle? No, not unless you wanted soup cans all over the place. Would you strap that stack to a bungie cord and toss it off a bridge? No! Not unless you were okay with losing a ton of soup!

The important exception to this analogy: Would you crack open one of those cans (or more, if you were having a party) and enjoy the savory soup inside? Yes, you probably would. And that’s ok with literal soup cans, but not with your vertebrae. You would be surprised at how awful that soup is, and it is extremely unlikely that it will be worth losing all movement and feeling in your lower body.

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