Effects of extreme ritual practices on health

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KUNDT Radek XYGALATAS Dimitrios KHAN Sammyh LANG Martin KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ Eva KRÁTKÝ Jan SHAVER John Hayward

Year of publication 2018
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description Extreme rituals involving painful body mutilation remain an evolutionary puzzle. How to explain the lack of obvious fitness benefits with such a high risk of injury, trauma or infection? One of the proposed hidden benefits could paradoxically be a positive long-term health impact. We report the results of a comparison of physiological measurements and subjective assessments of the quality of life before and after the Tamil Hindu ritual Kavadi between the participants and the control group.
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