Thailand. Periodically rings (spiral) at will, or necessarily, act in film and put on again, it does not cause harm to health. In case of full refusal of carrying of rings, the neck assumes a usual air for the period from a year to three. There is an ordinary myth that women-giraffes cannot live without these rings. It not so, women with the removed rings do not suffer from their absence. X-ray researches of women-padaung have shown that actually for the account of rings the neck is not extended, and the humeral zone is deformed, a humeral belt gradually fall under weight of rings as it fastens to a skeleton by means of all one joint. Visibility of a long neck is as a result created, but in the neck no changes occur.