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The violent attack on the body results in ill physical health, many medical complaints and
victims describe initially many physical symptoms, few of which will be mentioned.
(Jaranson & Popkin 1998) These can be fresh or healed fractures, ostitis, periostistis,
nerve and vessel injury, fibrosis in muscles fasciae and connective tissue, injury to
tendons and ligaments, distortions and scars from beatings, whippings, cuts with knife or
other sharp instruments, burns or electrical torture. Other symptoms can be sexual
dysfunction, damaged teeth, the whiplash syndrome, punctured eardrums and hearing
loss due to different methods of telephone. Alopecia is found after electrical torture. The
torture survivors’ chronic pains and tension influences the general tension of the
musculature with figrositis, fibromyalgia and myofacsial pain as results.
Sexual torture may leave traces in the musculosceletal system, structural injuries,
functional disturbances and dysfunctional of the pelvic joints in women. They often have
low lumbar pain, complain about pains in genitalia, menstrual disturbances and sexual
problems. Sexual dysfunction and testicular atrophy in men is seen after electrical torture.
Torture victims have many symptoms in the musculosceletal system.
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