Fix Cory’s Balls
Bringing attention to a misunderstood, deeply painful injury
Contact: coryzuber@gmail.com
Fix Cory’s Balls
Bringing attention to a misunderstood, deeply painful injury
Contact: coryzuber@gmail.com
Current medical diagnostics often try to look through fascia and skin to identify issues beneath them. Imaging systems are designed to see past these layers in order to locate internal abnormalities. But what if the problem is not beneath the fascia and skin? What if the fascia and skin themselves are the source of the dysfunction?
To properly evaluate this possibility, we need imaging systems that provide far greater clarity than what is currently available. Ideally, this would mean improving resolution by a factor of 10x or even 100x compared to modern medical imaging technologies.
There is a multi-camera optical technique that may offer a path forward. This method is currently used in other fields to detect stealth objects using networks of optical cameras. By observing the same object from many viewpoints simultaneously, the system can triangulate extremely precise position estimates. The key principle is that the more cameras involved, the more accurate the positional estimation becomes.
At the moment, this technique is primarily applied to detecting single-point targets such as distant aircraft or missiles. However, I believe the underlying approach could be extended much further. Instead of locating a single point, it may be possible to track many points simultaneously and reconstruct full three-dimensional surface boundaries. By integrating data across multiple cameras and dimensions, the system could potentially generate a highly precise model of complex biological surfaces.
If successful, this type of imaging could allow us to observe the fascia and skin themselves with unprecedented detail. That level of clarity could open the door to understanding structural issues that current diagnostic systems simply cannot see.
At the same time, I believe the medical knowledge base—and the intention of doctors—should expand in scope. Diagnosing soft tissue problems should include a deeper understanding of tension, geometry, and topology across the body’s entire soft-tissue system.
A good starting point for this expanded focus would be the soft tissue structures of the penis and scrotum. These tissues form a complex mechanical system that carries forces, maintains positioning, and enables normal biological function. When these force-carrying tissues are compromised, the results can include pain, loss of function, abnormal mobility, or other mechanical disruptions.
Understanding these systems requires looking at them not just as anatomical structures, but as engineered networks of tension and support. With better imaging and a broader conceptual framework, we could begin to map how these soft tissue systems operate—and what happens when they fail.
The long term obvious goal is for anyone to be able to regrow any limb, correct any burning or other reason of loss of skin. For this to be successful we should also want to reconstruct any internal scaffolding that acts as a foundation for the skin.
Before we straight up splice our genes in order to regrow limbs we will need to take all teh steps leading up to that tecehnology. Meaning, we will start simple with a task like learning how to regrow specific cell types in lab or on the persons body.
For example if we need a certain area of skin that we want to retro fit to somewhere in the pelvic area we would first grow that section by selecting a donor area. However instead of cutting out as the feirst step we would first use that area to grow an excess of skin and fascia into the desired shape. Once the desired shape has grow, we would remove and then place that skin in the target area. So the research goal would be how do we initiate an area of skin to grow and can this be done in a lab instead of on the person.
Today I want to document potential solutions and innovations that could realistically address this problem, both through existing surgical techniques and through future advancements in tissue repair and replacement.
The proposed approach involves identifying the boundaries of the remaining strong fascia, removing the weakened or excess skin between those boundaries, and rejoining the two sections to create a single taut, supportive surface.
A urologist or surgeon unfamiliar with my case may immediately argue that this would be too tight or would introduce new complications. I strongly urge any such professional to spend more than five minutes with me in person, physically examining and feeling the area, before making that determination.
On a daily basis—whether in the shower or standing in my room—I reassess this concern myself. Based on constant firsthand evaluation, I find that there is plenty of remaining fascia and that this repair would greatly increase comfort and structural support.
There is significantly more excess skin in the area than existed prior to the injury, caused by ongoing stress applied to tissue that lacks proper underlying support. This is similar in nature to stretch marks, but occurring in a region with no functional fascia beneath it.
This area remains consistently red and irritated, particularly where the tissue experiences the greatest stretching and mechanical stress.
In the event that reconnecting the two severed sections of fascia is not possible—though I very strongly believe it IS possible in my case—it becomes critical to explore replacement strategies for fascia in regions where the skin remains intact but lacks structural support beneath.
This differs fundamentally from traditional skin grafting, where tissue is harvested from another part of the body. Instead, the goal would be to restore mechanical support beneath existing skin.
One avenue involves biologically matched solutions, such as lab-grown tissue created from the patient’s own cells, or extended tissue sections grown within the patient’s body itself and later relocated.
Another avenue involves advancements in synthetic or non-human materials designed to replicate the mechanical properties of fascia—materials capable of providing durable, elastic, load-bearing support in areas where native fascia has failed.
Both paths represent a fundamental shift away from treating this problem as “unfixable,” and toward recognizing it as a solvable mechanical and biological failure.
Whether through direct repair or innovative replacement, restoring proper tension and support beneath intact skin is the key objective. Without this, the tissue remains in a constant state of stress, irritation, and degeneration.
Advancing understanding and willingness to address fascia-specific injuries is essential if meaningful recovery is ever to be achieved.
Truthfully, I want to be able to have sex without pain. I want to feel that I can have sex at any moment, in any position, without fear of consequences afterward.
Right now, there are certain positions that clearly and severely affect the spermatic cords. The impact is not subtle, and the resulting pain reinforces the sense that the underlying support systems are compromised.
I feel strongly that the urological community does NOT yet understand the intricacies of the topology and dynamic behavior of the fascia at the penis–scrotum boundary. This region is treated as simple or secondary, when in reality it plays a critical mechanical and protective role.
The penis–scrotum boundary is likely one of the only places on the body that is uniquely susceptible to a traction injury. The geometry of this region, its ability to grip and pull, and the leverage created by the shaft can combine to load an extreme amount of stress into a very specific area of skin and fascia.
This can lead to over-stretching and eventual failure of the tissue. Once this failure occurs, it does not self-repair. Instead, it propagates, creating a condition that realistically requires surgical intervention to restore proper function and tension.
An injury in this region does not exist in isolation. It can cascade into a multitude of secondary injuries throughout the pelvic floor. Many of these follow-up injuries go unnoticed, are poorly understood, or are never properly diagnosed by today’s urologists.
This leaves the patient in a state of confusion and hopelessness—aware that something is fundamentally wrong, yet repeatedly told that nothing meaningful can be found.
I hope that serious studies can be conducted to better understand the properties, failure modes, and utility of fascia in this region. Without this understanding, patients like me remain trapped between lived physical reality and a medical system that lacks the language and models to explain it.
The urology community and general medical community do NOT have a meaningful understanding of the absolute importance of all the fascia systems in the scrotum and penis region. They do NOT understand the importance of relative and absolute tension in this area and how a change in tension (laxity of skin), which can actually be an absence of fascia, can drastically affect the comfort in the region, the protection of the spermatic cords, and the stability of the shaft while erect. The constant over-stimulation of the nerves in the region when the fascia is compromised is not well understood. I hope to educate the industry on these oversights.
The genital system is the only external system on the body that is comprised only of soft tissue (without bone or cartilage). As such, it relies entirely on the topology and strength of the superficial and deep fascia for comfort and function.
Having seen 4 urologists, I can say in general they do not have the knowledge or training to diagnose an internal separation of any of these systems. Nor do they have the sense to detect a tear or lack of fascia during examination, THOUGH it is well within their capacity and must be taught. They must learn that this is a rare but possible issue. It is likely the only place on the body that such an injury can occur, and likely why it is not well understood or taught.
The only thing I could imagine comparing the injury to would be something like an excessive tugging of an ear and having those internal systems be torn and compromised, and from the outside not being easily detected as the skin still has some ability to withstand force.
I have been hyper-fixated on understanding and solving this issue as it has affected me non-stop for nearly 2 years.
Lastly, I would like to state how this has completely stopped my sexual life or the capacity to have a woman on top of me. The change in function of the penis and scrotum is so noticeable and painful that normal sex leads to pain for weeks in the spermatic cords. This is ENTIRELY to do with the relative and absolute spring (retention/restoring) force being provided by the superficial fascia. A light touch of the hand is uncomfortable; the weight of a human during sex is devastating.
The study I would like to conduct is that of the topology and strength of the frontal genital region and the impact on the spermatic cords and nerves.
The main issue is that (in my case) the region that lacks tension rises well above the centerline of the shaft. Specifically, the channel/path that the spermatic cords take is completely compromised from all the way above the top portion of the shaft of the penis and upward toward the groin and lower abdomen.
One less testable but still extremely important thing to understand is the failure mode of the fascia in this region. In my case, I believe multiple regions experience damage and with multiple failure modes:
Current guidance on how to solve this issue is currently misled as they are missing the understanding of these fascia systems (essentially acting as if it was nerve pain alone), which it is not, and to restore function and protection a corrective surgery is a MUST.
One way to describe the injury in the front is to explain it like a curtain covering a window. Imagine a curtain fabric hanging from a rod and extending across the width of a window. Then imagine scissors were used to cut horizontally just below the rod from which it was supported. This would cause the fabric that was normally high and on one side to swing down and hang resting well below where it should be to effectively block the light. This is quite comparable and noticeable to my situation.
The section of skin I would normally associate with the sections to the left and right of the penis and still part of the groin. This section is typically accompanied by a certain amount of fat, pubic hair that can be easily shaved, and the area that contacts a sexual partner during intercourse—a section of padding where pressure during sex is enjoyable and not painful.
Another clear visual difference between me and others, and even those seeking a surgery like a scrotoplasty, is that when the penis undergoes traction (tugged or during erection), this section is normally noticeably taut and contributing to the restorative tension. Images of pre-operation for scrotoplasty patients show this section as such (taut and undergoing tension during a tug of the head of penis).
HOWEVER, in my case, even the most drastic of pulls on the head of the penis elicits no such recruitment from this area of the skin. In a photo you would notice that it is still lax and not contributing. This has great negative implications.
First, it means that only the top 15% of the skin above the penis is contributing to this tension. This should be cause for alarm as it is well understood that when the same amount of force is applied to a system where the spring force is greatly reduced, the area then undergoes a much larger amount of stretch or deformation due to the proportionally lessened spring constant.
In plain English, this means that this area of skin is stretched way past what is comfortable and is painful and even the cause of more injury for what otherwise would have been an acceptable and enjoyable amount of tension in the area. Even more simply: "sex is painful."
It is from this awareness that I have stopped dating, have extremely low confidence, am thoroughly depressed, and isolate myself from women. I have gone from an outgoing [individual to someone struggling with these significant challenges].