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Originally posted by Reality
Ok. Here's the thing about tugging with devices:
1. There are two general components involved, skin, and the device (whatever that device may be).
2. Your skin has a built-in stretch, which is natural for skin. Skin naturally stretches to counteract tension. This built-in, natural response protects skin from damage/tearing. But to call up the response we want, you have to go beyond that stretch limit.
3. Your device places a certain tension on your skin at the beginning, when you first put the device on. Are you at, or just beyond the stretch limit? You'll have to experiment. At any rate, you can call the first few minutes of tugging a 'certain tension'. Everybody who's used a device knows this.
4. But (assuming this initial tension is a good amount) does that tension last, and especially, does it last from that point on, throughout the day? Think about it.
5. Two things happen to that initial tension. First, your skin stretches. Yes, it stretched a certain amount when you applied the device. But there is bound to be more natural skin stretch available. And in fact there always is. So your skin can stretch a bit more, and it will, and when this happens, that initial tension reduces in strength. In other words, you started with a certain amount of tension, but you lose it to any remaining ability for your skin to stretch. There will always be some remaining ability to counteract tension, because of the way skin forms. Skin has areas which also counteract tension (I don't want to get too technical here). So let's look at that....
6. Second, skin is pliable ("stretchy"). So the skin a little distant from where you fixed your skin with the device (you have to fix your skin at some point, in order to pull on it) also stretches. Protection, remember? This area of stretchiness also affects the strength of tension you think you first applied. It can, and does, take over for the maxed out area of skin. So....tension has gone down again, OVER TIME (time: time is not the friend newbies seem to think). So what's the situation at this point? That first tension, which you have judged to be the right amount of tension, an amount of tension that just magically "stays" there, has reduced, gone down, for more than one reason.
7. Well, jeeze, here's greg and me trying to get across to you guys that you need a range of tension to cause any eventual skin growth (which happens to be true). So even if you are experimenting with a range of tension, IT STILL GOES AWAY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. What can be done for that? Is the situation lost? Are you gonna slap that sucker on and run and hide?
8. You can do only one thing, one thing which allows your skin to respond in the best and most timely fashion: ADJUST THE TENSION. What a startling concept.
9. Sounds simple, right? But wait...... what about you guys who slap that sucker on, and walk away from adjusting the tension from time to time? You guys who think that a device and a simple "10 hours" will take care of everything. If you think that a device does it all, ie places a constant tension on your skin, then you don't understand your skin, or your device.
10. Can you see: it is NEVER about "hours", it is NEVER about which device you have (including your god-given fingers), it is about adjustment of tension, and said differently, about CYCLES of tension. ON/OFF. If you use a device, you still need to adjust the tension. Often. NO device places "constant tension" (that forum myth) on skin. That isn't how your device works. And that isn't how your skin works.
So when some guy tells you that "10 to 12 hours" is good, and HE DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TENSION "PRETTY OFTEN", then you didn't get the whole picture. In fact, YOU DIDN'T GET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE PICTURE!
I've simplified what I know of the process as it relates to skin expansion the way we do it. Nobody needs to know the actual science involved, and judging by the usual reply on this forum, nobody really cares, they prefer chatter, myth, and as little focus (work) as possible. But if you walk away with the idea that you have to readjust your tension from time to time, then you understand all you need to know. You will eventually be successful.
And by the way, the flexing action of a strap, which is.....you guessed it......off and on, can create cycles of tension. Are they effective cycles? IN MY OPINION (only), yeah, maybe. But again, I don't know that for a fact, and you have to experiment to find out for yourself.
There: pretty much done with this for now.
1. There are two general components involved, skin, and the device (whatever that device may be).
2. Your skin has a built-in stretch, which is natural for skin. Skin naturally stretches to counteract tension. This built-in, natural response protects skin from damage/tearing. But to call up the response we want, you have to go beyond that stretch limit.
3. Your device places a certain tension on your skin at the beginning, when you first put the device on. Are you at, or just beyond the stretch limit? You'll have to experiment. At any rate, you can call the first few minutes of tugging a 'certain tension'. Everybody who's used a device knows this.
4. But (assuming this initial tension is a good amount) does that tension last, and especially, does it last from that point on, throughout the day? Think about it.
5. Two things happen to that initial tension. First, your skin stretches. Yes, it stretched a certain amount when you applied the device. But there is bound to be more natural skin stretch available. And in fact there always is. So your skin can stretch a bit more, and it will, and when this happens, that initial tension reduces in strength. In other words, you started with a certain amount of tension, but you lose it to any remaining ability for your skin to stretch. There will always be some remaining ability to counteract tension, because of the way skin forms. Skin has areas which also counteract tension (I don't want to get too technical here). So let's look at that....
6. Second, skin is pliable ("stretchy"). So the skin a little distant from where you fixed your skin with the device (you have to fix your skin at some point, in order to pull on it) also stretches. Protection, remember? This area of stretchiness also affects the strength of tension you think you first applied. It can, and does, take over for the maxed out area of skin. So....tension has gone down again, OVER TIME (time: time is not the friend newbies seem to think). So what's the situation at this point? That first tension, which you have judged to be the right amount of tension, an amount of tension that just magically "stays" there, has reduced, gone down, for more than one reason.
7. Well, jeeze, here's greg and me trying to get across to you guys that you need a range of tension to cause any eventual skin growth (which happens to be true). So even if you are experimenting with a range of tension, IT STILL GOES AWAY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. What can be done for that? Is the situation lost? Are you gonna slap that sucker on and run and hide?
8. You can do only one thing, one thing which allows your skin to respond in the best and most timely fashion: ADJUST THE TENSION. What a startling concept.
9. Sounds simple, right? But wait...... what about you guys who slap that sucker on, and walk away from adjusting the tension from time to time? You guys who think that a device and a simple "10 hours" will take care of everything. If you think that a device does it all, ie places a constant tension on your skin, then you don't understand your skin, or your device.
10. Can you see: it is NEVER about "hours", it is NEVER about which device you have (including your god-given fingers), it is about adjustment of tension, and said differently, about CYCLES of tension. ON/OFF. If you use a device, you still need to adjust the tension. Often. NO device places "constant tension" (that forum myth) on skin. That isn't how your device works. And that isn't how your skin works.
So when some guy tells you that "10 to 12 hours" is good, and HE DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TENSION "PRETTY OFTEN", then you didn't get the whole picture. In fact, YOU DIDN'T GET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE PICTURE!
I've simplified what I know of the process as it relates to skin expansion the way we do it. Nobody needs to know the actual science involved, and judging by the usual reply on this forum, nobody really cares, they prefer chatter, myth, and as little focus (work) as possible. But if you walk away with the idea that you have to readjust your tension from time to time, then you understand all you need to know. You will eventually be successful.
And by the way, the flexing action of a strap, which is.....you guessed it......off and on, can create cycles of tension. Are they effective cycles? IN MY OPINION (only), yeah, maybe. But again, I don't know that for a fact, and you have to experiment to find out for yourself.
There: pretty much done with this for now.
Well my main focus aside from all of that is how can I restore whilst I’m at work?? What’s your suggestion.
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