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WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH

Is anything having a piezo electric effect on you?

Posted - August 20, 2017
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  • 23588

    I hope so - - it sounds hot!
    :)
      August 20, 2017 10:09 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    It is electric and I don't know a thing about it save how it affects clients who come in for a hot stone massage.  Apparently, piezo literally means pressure; to squeeze

    Piezoelectricity - that definition?  It is so dry and boring to figure out, I don't even want to go there.

    Why we therapists use it is for effecting the increase of collagen production by stimulating, let's just say cell production in muscle tissue.  That's good enough.

    So we use hot stones for massage and when we do, we do a move that just has one stone on your skin, say your back, and then there will be another stone tapping on that stone creating this piezoelectric "spark".   So, picture a flat stone that is a little warmer than body temp. lying on your lower back.  You are also lying down, of course on a table.   So,  the tapping stone, which is then electrically stimulating the nerves under the stone lying on your back, creates this piezo effect   and causes both soothing and stimulating results deep within the tissues.

    Too much information? This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 21, 2017 4:59 PM MDT
      August 20, 2017 11:15 PM MDT
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  • 23588
    Not at all.
    :)
      August 21, 2017 4:59 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    I'm retired---So no, not enough pressure to trigger one.
      August 20, 2017 10:18 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Not me, but the  Siri on my smartphone has.
      August 20, 2017 1:22 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Care to explain to a compromised brain like myself's?
      August 20, 2017 11:22 PM MDT
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  • 13071
     Piezo ™. Charmingly Simple Audio Recording. Piezo makes it a snap to record audio on your Mac. In seconds, you'll be recording audio from any application. Its voice actvated and personalized operating systems for many brands of smartphones using speech recognition. RIght?
      August 21, 2017 11:59 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    ooooooooooooohhh

    Thanks for explaining.   I had no clue. 
      August 21, 2017 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    I dint either until i copied it from the internet. ;+
      August 22, 2017 7:22 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    just when I eat Pizza
      August 20, 2017 1:23 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Good one Baba. ;))
      August 20, 2017 1:24 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Oh you are affected by TMP too?   (too much pizza effect)
      August 20, 2017 11:23 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    definitely true LOL
      August 21, 2017 9:32 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    I am the God of hellfire, and I give you piezo electric  effect!
      August 20, 2017 1:53 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Yes, piezo is passionate.
      August 20, 2017 11:24 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Piezo electric effects can be measured in some crystals when they are squeezed or bent. They are too miniscule to affect people in any noticeable way.
      August 20, 2017 5:31 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I beg to differ. But great answer, thanks Jakob.
      August 20, 2017 11:24 PM MDT
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  • 3719

    I am sure your massage technique works, but not by piezo-electric charges. Whoever sold you that explanation was trying to blind you with pseudo-science.

    Put very simply - since you were rather dismissive about it some way above - piezo-electric charges are triggered in certain materials when they are under changing strain; and vice-versa, but only while the strain is changing and then only in certain directions. The loudspeaker in your 'phone is probably piezo-electric, as is the igniter on many gas ovens.

    Those materials include quartz, common in many but by no means all types of stone; but the chances of a random pebble of quartz-rich rock actually producing any electric charge when you tap it, are extremely tiny.

    I would suggest the massage works simply by the heat and contact of the warm stones, not any sort of electrical phenomena, though I wonder if telling the client about the supposed piezo-electricity gives an extra placebo effect to the treatment.

      September 15, 2017 5:54 PM MDT
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