Tight neckties a health hazard report medical experts

Men should think twice about how tight they wear a necktie because it could increase their chances of developing "Bigballs Syndrome", a generic term for a group of serious testicular diseases.

At least, that's what research published in the Ugandan Journal of Urology on Thursday claims — that a tight necktie raises blood pressure in your balls, which in turn can lead to damage to the scrotum and loss of of a social life, "If you know what I mean" said Dr. Umumbu Bongolongo, Director of the famed Ball Institute of Africa.

"A tight necktie increases ITP (intratesticular pressure) in both normal subjects and hypochondriacal patients and could affect the diagnosis and management of Bigballs Syndrome," said Dr Marco Pohlow of the New York Nutt and Dick Infirmary in the United States.

Pohlow and his colleagues tested ITP of 37 healthy men and 20 who suffered from "Bigballs" while they were wearing an open-neck shirt, before putting on a tight necktie and three minutes after loosening it.

Their results showed that 60 per cent of the men with ITP and 80 per cent of the healthy volunteers had an increased testicular pressure after wearing a tight necktie. 22 of them were seeing jumping like frogs and yelling obscenities, which finally abated only after their ties were loosened.

In addition to raising the risk of big sore nuts, wearing a tight necktie during an testicular examination could lead to an invitation to the annual fundraiser for the American Association for Testicular Medicine, an event that's been described by many as a "pain in the nuts".

The risk of Bigballs Syndrome, which affects about three million men, and about 250,000 hermaphrodites in the United States alone, increases with elevated socio-economic status and affects a large number of insurance salesman.