Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Month Waist Training Update Before + After Pics
- Why use a corset or waist trainer?
- Risk of wearing corsets for health
- 1. Respiratory problems
- 2. Indigestion
- 3. Bone shape damage or injury
- 4. Atrophy of internal organs
- 5. Low back pain
Medical Video: 5 Month Waist Training Update Before + After Pics
To work on a lean body, various ways are taken. One of them is by wearing a corset. Lately, the appearance of corsets or waist trainer on the rise. This is thanks to the top Hollywood celebrities who initiated the use of corset trends to form a slim waist.
However, do you often use corsets safe for health? Or perhaps the risk is actually greater than its usefulness? Just take a look at the following information to find out the answer.
Why use a corset or waist trainer?
Since the 1900s, women in Europe began to aggressively wear corsets to maintain body shape like an hourglass. This trend also spread to Asian countries, including Indonesia. Women on the island of Java began wearing corsets, better known as stagen. Corsets are worn everyday, with the hope that for a long time the waist will follow a beautiful corset form.
In the modern era, corsets are used to maintain body posture, giving the impression of a lean body, and shrinking the waist and abdomen. Some people also exercise while wearing a corset or waist trainer because it believes that the results will be more maximal in shaping the waist and burning fat that accumulates in the stomach.
However, until now there have been no studies that have proven the benefits of using a corset when exercising to burn fat, form abdominal muscles, or shrink the waist. According to experts, using a corset will not be able to eliminate body fat. When using a fat corset, it will only move, not burn or disappear.
Risk of wearing corsets for health
Although many say the corset is one of the instant ways to streamline the body, you have to be careful. Wearing a corset every day can cause a variety of serious health problems. This is what might happen if you wear corsets too long in the long run.
1. Respiratory problems
According to Dr. Christopher Ochner, a health expert from Mount Sinai Hospital in the United States, wearing a corset too long can make it difficult for you to breathe. Furthermore, Dr. Christopher Ochner also warned that some women were reported to have collapsed from wearing corsets too tight all day so that their respiratory tract was blocked. This is caused by decreased lung capacity due to squeezing strong pressure from the corset.
2. Indigestion
Apart from breathing problems, you often wear a corset or waist trainer also susceptible to digestive disorders. Because, just like the lungs are squeezed, so does your digestive system. The intestine and stomach must work harder in moving and digesting food. Pressure from the corset can also trigger stomach acid disease, a condition in which stomach acid rises against gravity into the esophagus.
3. Bone shape damage or injury
The legacy of female bones from the 18th century that experts studied showed that the use of tight corsets for long periods of time caused damage or deformity of bones. The ribs of women in England and France bend and form letters S. If it is more severe, this damage can result in bone injury, such as cracks or piercing organs in the body. However, this has never been seen in medical history.
4. Atrophy of internal organs
Atrophy is shrinking or shrinking organs and tissues in the body. In this case, wearing a corset every day risks causing abdominal wall atrophy and side abdominal muscle atrophy (oblique) As a result, instead of looking healthy and tight, the muscle mass in the abdomen actually weakened. If you experience atrophy, you might not be able to stand up forever without any support or support. Especially if you are not wearing a corset.
5. Low back pain
Binding your waist, abdomen, and lower back with a corset will cause blood circulation to not run smoothly. Especially on the lower back which is responsible for supporting your posture. Therefore, the back feels painful, stiff, and numb. When removing the corset you tend to bend because the lower back is not strong enough to support your body after a day of excessive pressure.
