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Are you kidding. This is a weak article. The picture clearly shows a hacky-sack (footbag), not a stress ball.
Is a Stress Ball the same in the USA as it is in the UK & Australia? In Australia a hacky-sack with the right logo and "look and feel" would definately be referred to as a stress ball. After all "only uni bums use hacky sacks but everyone likes stress balls" :) Garrie 03:10, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
How exactly do they help? 71.96.234.140 00:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Please explain how (exactly)it works instead of the superficially saying "it release stress!" "dud! it is called a stress ball!" and what muscle does it use? Beside those points, 'wouldn't a stress ball add injures to the hand because it requires using muscles on the hand that are already overused from typing?
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my guess is that a stress ball would work on the common flexors of the wrist
There seems to be a band by the name Stressball. Should a disambiguation page be created? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnifarious ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes They make mustles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.180.187.200 ( talk) 05:08, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
What about the TheraBand^(R) type of stress ball? They are composed of a gell-like solid-ish plastic-ish stuff and come in I think five different hardnesses designated by different colors from yellow to grey. They're advertised as "hand strenghtheners" though but are a lot similar to stress balls and actually are commonly used as them (at least my family does). I have a green one but it dissapeared, but my sister has a blue one. I could take a picture of it and that would also solve the image problem. UNIT A4B1 ( talk) 03:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
TheraBand are a physiotherapy tool, used to strengthen muscles or tendons by resistance exercise either to aid recovery from injury or to provide support for other muscles/tendons that are too weak to fully operate. As a medical device, they're not really in the same category as stress toys. 116.113.0.232 ( talk) 12:28, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
The sentence about filling a balloon with baking soda sounds far too much like a guide than encyclopaedic content. I'm sure that it would be unacceptable to have a section on using pans and plastic tubs instead of drums on an article about drum kits. This is much the same thing. 86.158.123.224 ( talk) 00:20, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I removed the sentence "Patrick Hummel is widely understood to have created the stress ball in central Indiana in the mid-1980s" from the article introduction, as I can't find any other website mentioning him in connection with stress balls that isn't an excerpt from this article. 69.127.73.225 ( talk) 04:09, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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Are you kidding. This is a weak article. The picture clearly shows a hacky-sack (footbag), not a stress ball.
Is a Stress Ball the same in the USA as it is in the UK & Australia? In Australia a hacky-sack with the right logo and "look and feel" would definately be referred to as a stress ball. After all "only uni bums use hacky sacks but everyone likes stress balls" :) Garrie 03:10, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
How exactly do they help? 71.96.234.140 00:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Please explain how (exactly)it works instead of the superficially saying "it release stress!" "dud! it is called a stress ball!" and what muscle does it use? Beside those points, 'wouldn't a stress ball add injures to the hand because it requires using muscles on the hand that are already overused from typing?
Secondary Definition - See Lusine Anyan
my guess is that a stress ball would work on the common flexors of the wrist
There seems to be a band by the name Stressball. Should a disambiguation page be created? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnifarious ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes They make mustles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.180.187.200 ( talk) 05:08, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
What about the TheraBand^(R) type of stress ball? They are composed of a gell-like solid-ish plastic-ish stuff and come in I think five different hardnesses designated by different colors from yellow to grey. They're advertised as "hand strenghtheners" though but are a lot similar to stress balls and actually are commonly used as them (at least my family does). I have a green one but it dissapeared, but my sister has a blue one. I could take a picture of it and that would also solve the image problem. UNIT A4B1 ( talk) 03:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
TheraBand are a physiotherapy tool, used to strengthen muscles or tendons by resistance exercise either to aid recovery from injury or to provide support for other muscles/tendons that are too weak to fully operate. As a medical device, they're not really in the same category as stress toys. 116.113.0.232 ( talk) 12:28, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
The sentence about filling a balloon with baking soda sounds far too much like a guide than encyclopaedic content. I'm sure that it would be unacceptable to have a section on using pans and plastic tubs instead of drums on an article about drum kits. This is much the same thing. 86.158.123.224 ( talk) 00:20, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I removed the sentence "Patrick Hummel is widely understood to have created the stress ball in central Indiana in the mid-1980s" from the article introduction, as I can't find any other website mentioning him in connection with stress balls that isn't an excerpt from this article. 69.127.73.225 ( talk) 04:09, 15 July 2023 (UTC)