Seriously, I use RockTape for just about anything. If it doesn't move well, I RockTape it. If it moves too much, I RockTape it. Why?
If you have an injury, your brain interprets that injury either as:
IT'S BROKEN, SO DON'T MOVE IT.
or
IT'S GONE AND I CAN'T FIND IT.
Let's say it's your ankle. If you've just rolled or sprained your ankle, your brain screams: "Stop! Don't move!" and sends those chemical messengers to create swelling and puff up your ankle to elephant-like proportions. All the pain fibers ramp up, so you don't keep walking or playing on a damaged joint. This is where RockTape is used in finger-like strips to bring the swelling down.
Once your ankle has healed, RockTape is used to tell the brain that the danger is over, and that it's safe to walk and run and jump, and that your ankle is FINE. Now, RockTape is a source of sensory and proprioceptive input.
Unless you have a chronic ankle injury, and your brain has never gotten the message that your ankle is FINE. How do you know if your brain doesn't get the message? If you have repeated ankle sprains, or you roll your ankle periodically. You might laugh it off and call it klutziness, but it's really a brain problem. Your brain just CAN'T FIND YOUR ANKLE. It's like that book
Your brain says to your knee: "Are you my ankle?" and then treats the knee as the next best ankle it can find. But this is a bad thing: a knee isn't meant to move the way an ankle does, so if your ankle gets hurt and ISN'T rehabbed, then the knee is the next joint to be injured.
The solution? Use RockTape to help your brain find your ankle, remember how your ankle should move, and restore the normal movement patterns. This is how tape-touching-skin affects the sense receptors - so you can sense, move, and be extraordinary!
I've tried all the different types of kinesiotape on the market - I've found that RockTape sticks the best, is least irritating to skin, and and has the most support & tutorials of how to use it.
Angela Hall
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