Originally Posted by Titleist
What ever you use must be able to be removed within seconds.Using a hose clamp can result in permanent damage.
You’re more likely hurt yourself with a cable tie clamp. It has click adjust ability of we’ll say 10% tighter per click. So you get it just about right. But need it 1 or 2% tighter. What’s the only option you have? 10% or nothing. You can’t go a half click. So you give it the click. Now you’ve over tightened it unnecessarily. You had no choice. With the hose clamp’s infinite adjust ability, you just give it another 1/16th of a turn, perfect tight. You can’t accidentally squeeze it too hard and give it two clicks instead of one, and really get yourself into trouble. If you do get into trouble, which is less likely than with the cable tie clamp, the hose clamp takes about 5 seconds to get off, you can be loosening out of danger just as fast as the cable tie clamp, even though it doesn’t come all the way off until 3 seconds later. It’s actually safer, not more dangerous. You’ll never be forced to over tighten it like you have to with the other model, and you can’t make the two click mistake.
In addition, if at any time it starts to feel a bit too tight, just loosen it a quarter turn, simple. With the other, you have to take it right off. You what we do.. “uhhhhh, maybe it’ll be OK, I’ll just leave it on a bit longer and see, cause I don’t really feel like fuckin’ with it, then I gotta start all over again.” That’s how people get hurt. And you don’t have to take risk like that when you have infinite adjust ability.
Now on this issue of having to be removable in 2 seconds. That’s utter garbage. Let’s just say you just had an Oh shit! Moment, and hurt yourself. Whatever you did is already done. It’s over. The clamp cannot hurt you any more than it already just did. Taking it off in 2 seconds is not going to make the torn tissue repair itself. It’s not going to make the burst blood vessel heal miraculously in one second. All it’s going to do, maybe, is relive the pain one second quicker. But what’s done has already been done. It can’t harm you anymore now. That’s why a paramedic will leave a nail stuck in your leg, in your leg, till you get to the hospital. The nail can’t hurt you any more than it already has. Pulling it out might cause you to bleed to death on the way to the hospital though. So he leaves it in for the doctor to take out. And it doesn’t matter a bit, what’s done is done.
Now if you wanted to tell me the hose clamp places undue pressure on the dorsal nerve. I might be willing to at least consider it. I wore mine for three months and never had any problem. I never hurt myself even once with it. All it really does is simulate a hand jelq, that you can hold for a longer period of time. I don’t buy it, but I’d be willing to consider the possibility, even though I saw no evidence of it myself.
I say the hose clamp is actually safer, for the above reasons.