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[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 174 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't you just hate it when actual patients tend to have some stupid skin all over their muscles

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 119 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a bodybuilder friend who was like the most popular guy during the first year of med school because everyone would use him as a model to study muscles cuz if you touched him you could feel a lot of the different muscles.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 2 months ago

Totally the only thing you felt when touching him 😏

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Tensor fasciae latae

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago

I'm tempted to say yes, but it's Diminished Glutes Syndrome, from King of the Hill.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The physique of a heavy drinker

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Or a standard Danny Devito

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

That is kind of funny, since there is genuinely a decent chance that someone who's unwell is also obese or unfit or old...