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Nobody Really Knows What Causes a Side Stitch
Nobody Really Knows What Causes a Side StitchA side stitch is common enough that clinics gave it a name, ETAP, and researchers can even trigger it after a drink on a treadmill. Textbooks, ligament stretch, and parietal-peritoneum irritation all compete. Popular Science still says doctors do not know the cause or a reliable stop.
- Plunkett & Hopkins 1999 — MSSE stitch experiment
- Muir 2009 — ETAP case report and review
- Popular Science — What is a side stitch
- you-to-get-a-stitch-in-your-side- Trail Runner — The cause of side stitches
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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