What is the science of the Vulcan grip from the Star Trek television series ?

I want to know is the Vulcan grip that is presented in many episodes of Star Trek is caused by the applied pressure to the arteries and muscles of the neck. On another subject, which writer helps to add the idea of the grip to the show?What is the science of the Vulcan grip from the Star Trek television series ?ooopsWhat is the science of the Vulcan grip from the Star Trek television series ?Despite being purely fantasy, there is some science to the grip:

1: If you can close off an artery that leads to the brain, the victim will go unconscious. The real-world wrestling move "The Sleeper" does just that - it pinches closed the main artery running up the side of your neck, into your brain. However it takes a couple of minutes for unconsciousness to occur.



2: The Eastern concept of pressure points. Eastern medicine is based the idea that stimulating certain points on the body where nerves intersect will have certain affects. Many marital arts rely on pressure points to prevent an attacker from being able to move his arm, for instance. However the idea that there's a universal pressure point on all humanoid species somewhere near the shoulder that causes instantaneous unconsciousness is just fantasy. (For one thing, there's no such thing that'll even work on humans...)



As for how the writers came up with it, they didn't. Originally there was an episode where the script called for Spock to sneak up behind an enemy guard and whack him in the back of the head with the butt of his phaser. Leonard Nimoy didn't think Spock, being (part) Vulcan would be so primitive and suggested a sort of martial arts-y thing, which eventually led to the creation of the Vulcan grip familiar to all Star Trek fans today.What is the science of the Vulcan grip from the Star Trek television series ?It's the Vulcan Neck Pinch. There is an attempt to answer that here:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_neck鈥?/a>



I think that it's just a sensitive area, so people generally accept that it would really hurt to be pinched there, so it works as a fictional device.