Many Chinese girls cut nerves to have slim calves

Many young people in China look to surgery to have small ears or are willing to cut off nerves to have thinner calves.
The Paper Recently, blogger Chen, a hot girl on social networks in China, shared pictures after surgery to get small ears. She is proud of her results.

Chinese blogger was criticized for sharing about “goblin ear” surgery. “Goblin ears help me look a lot younger. With the elongated earlobes, my face becomes smaller, the lines are more elegant,” Chen shared. Chen’s story quickly caused a great controversy when many people believed that the female blogger’s shares were promoting a beauty trend that was weird, toxic and dangerous to health. Li Zhengyong, deputy director of the Department of Aesthetics and Burns, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, said that “goblin ear” actually refers to a birth defect in the ear. A person with normal ears who wants to have surgery to become “goblin ears” will have to take cartilage from several places on the body to cover the earlobe. “This type of surgery can cause dangerous complications, and the consequences are unpredictable,” Dr. Li said. Not only doing “goblin ear” surgery, Chinese young people also follow many strange beauty trends to achieve “body perfection”. Another controversial cosmetic trend recently is cutting nerves to have slim calves. In an interview on May 20, Dr. Zeng Chun, Deputy Director of the Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Affiliated Hospital 3 of Southern Medical University, said he was shocked when he heard that a girl had died. get rid of some nerves in your legs to make your calves look leaner. Many people blindly believe in neurectomy for thinner calves. “Patients with nerve injury and calf muscle atrophy are very painful, they find ways to recover. I did not expect that there are healthy people actively destroying their nerves,” said the doctor. doctor expressed. On online forums, the keyword “calf block” is searched by many people in the hope of a solution to help slim calves. According to information shared from these service providers, customers will have some less important nerves removed in the calf, gradually the muscles will be weak and atrophy, helping to make the legs smaller and straighter. Doctor Zheng Chun explained that to treat a broken bone is quite easy, but once the nerve is damaged, there is a high chance that it cannot be restored. Zheng also asserts that no nerve is considered less important in the body. On Good Doctor Online, a girl who has performed this surgery said that two months after the operation, she still could not walk normally, her legs were numb, and she could not stand on her feet. She was worried, scared and asked the doctor if there was any way to fix it. However, she could not find an answer. Many netizens expressed frustration when many girls still believe in unscientific surgery because they want to have a perfect appearance and harm themselves. On the other hand, bloggers sharing about the “calf block” method also received a lot of criticism when creating a malicious trend.