The first thing to abandon is the picture of a knot gradually working its way loose over the course of a walk, getting a little slacker with every step until…
Almost every bone in the body is connected to other bones. It meets them at joints, it is held by ligaments running bone to bone, and its position is fixed…
The thing has a formal description in the research literature, which translates roughly as short-lived abdominal pain related to exercise. The word stitch is the one everybody actually uses.
The…