Thursday, November 24, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Invisible traces… Visible cosmos…

A treatment called extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is used in patients both human and equine to speed healing of injured tendons and ligaments. Using high-pressure sonic waves, ESWT is thought to increase blood flow to the treated area and has been shown to reduce pain over the short term. In racehorses, however, masking pain can come with a cost: Overworked minor injuries could lead to major ones or even pose a life-threatening risk to both horse and rider. For that reason, horse racing authorities have banned the use of ESWT for horses within 10 days of a race or sporting event. But the question of how to enforce this "invisible" therapy remained open. Now a team led by Mary Robinson, and Jinwen Chen has found that the practice does in fact leave a trail. In a paper in Equine Veterinary Journal, they report finding potential biomarkers of ESWT that, with further testing, could one day be used to enforce the ESWT ban. [1] There is nothing that leaves no trace at all. Once there, pain is always there. Once there, life is always existing. Once there, death never leaves our bed. Seek signs of meaning in the meaningless. Seek traces of existence in the void. Look for hints of life in the most gruesome death. And at the end you will reach at a point where there is something which needs to leave no trace at all. Ask him. Why did you leave traces for Me to look for? But beware. Answer right. And you will have answered wrong…

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