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Read More. Alexandria Lane. Alexandria Pickett. Fort Washington. Pickett Street Alexandria, Virginia It's almost as though I had to try all these other avenues before I arrived here, to know that they don't work. The rock guitarist — of Jane's Addiction , and formerly the Red Hot Chili Peppers — is waxing lyrical about the practice of body suspension.

Closely linked with the greater world of body modification, suspension is a practice in which an individual's skin is pierced with large sterilised metal hooks, from which they are then hung. Used in ancient cultures for millennia, the modern form has been redefined by people such as Fakir Musafar, Stelarc, and Allen Falkner , who describes it as "cathartic". Clearly, there are risks. He highlights a number of possible risks, including infection, nerve and tendon damage due to improper hook placement, and the appearance of suspension shock syndrome if an individual suspends vertically for too long.

However, Scott DeBoer, a Chicago-based emergency medical technician and register nurse, insists it is safe. There are many different ways to suspend. Once you're in the air for, like, 30 or 40 seconds, that burn fades away. And then you get hit with the euphoria. You still feel the pressure, but at that point in time, you're elsewhere. Karras, a young woman with pink hair, came to New York City from outside Amherst, Massachusetts, to be suspended for the first time by Coichetti.

She was excited, and her boyfriend had come with her for his first suspension, too. Karras has been involved in the body modification scene for about five years, and has been helping out with suspensions and heavier body modifications, mostly types of cosmetic implants, for the last two. I just have to. I asked her what types of suspension she was interested in trying.

Gotta let my body heal up between, but eventually I want to try as many different and new things as we can think of. Tearing of the skin can, and does, happen, but it's almost never the sort of dramatic freefall that someone watching a suspension for the first time might imagine. There are certain parts of the body, like the knees and the chest, where tearing is more likely to occur.

Tearing happens slowly, and there is more than enough time, Coichetti said, to get the suspended person down on the ground before there is any serious injury. Skilled suspension artists can tell when the skin is beginning to tear, and will inform the suspended person what is going on. It's not an issue right now, but in about a minute or two it's going to get to the point where you need a stitch or two.

Are you comfortable with that? They don't have a choice. But if you're suspending and you're at this moment, most people go, 'Leave me up here, suture me later. You can find examples of suspensions gone wrong on the Internet. At a certain point, skin gives out, as King said. In most cases when a suspended person falls, though, the fall isn't due to the skin actually ripping. Improper insertion of the hooks, in conjunction with a high degree of motion, can result in the hooks sliding out.

Professionals who are attempting suspensions at great heights or suspensions that involve a good deal of motion will rig up a safety harness that acts as a failsafe should the hooks come out for some reason. One video on Hook Life, a blog that caters to the suspension community, shows a Russian suspension team suspending a man in an abandoned warehouse. The man freefalls from a great height, then swings back and forth. He is harnessed in.

Hook Life, though, added a lengthy disclaimer before posting the video, warning readers, essentially, not to try this at home. Coichetti's biggest concern about suspension is that people will try to imitate what they see on the Internet without the proper medical and technical knowledge required to perform a safe suspension.

Both King and Goldberg considered infection to be the greatest risk during suspension, but knowledgeable suspension artists use sterilized hooks, needles, and gauze when suspending someone to minimize the risk. Some scarring is inevitable, but when Coichetti showed me a point on his leg where he had suspended seven times, I wouldn't have noticed anything if it weren't for a white spot in a tattoo, evidence of where hooks had been. There is, as King suggested, a high level of physics and medical knowledge being put to use during a suspension, and Coichetti says safety is his number one priority.

He is a certified first responder, meaning he is trained in providing pre-hospital care for medical emergencies, and a volunteer fire fighter. Most of his team are certified in first aid care, and two of the suspension artists in the Rites of Passage Boston chapter are paramedics. If someone has a medical condition that would complicate a suspension, he consults the person's doctor to clear him or her for suspension. He has turned some people looking to suspend away due to the medical risks that a condition presents.

Shock can be life threatening, but, I mean, you break your leg, you go into shock. Shock is on a spectrum," he made a wide space with his two hands, "we're just fucking around in this range," he said, using two fingers to indicate the very low end. And, he says, if something ever were to go wrong, the first thing he would do would be to call an ambulance. That feeling of shock is what many who suspend are looking for -- the rush of endorphins, serotonin, and other chemicals that results in a sort of high.

Some see it as a spiritual experience. Others find it exhilarating, and laugh while they are suspended. Getting hooked on body suspension By Paige Pfleger October 26, Janusewski is taking a quick smoke break before her suspension. Share this Facebook Twitter Email. Brought to you by The Pulse. The Pulse Go on an adventure into unexpected corners of the health and science world each week with award-winning host Maiken Scott.

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