Daily Maestroism

DM #8

Tuesday, May 31st, 2016

DM #8: Following up on yesterday's DM about the neurosensory effect of kinesiology taping, I wanted to share with you what I tell the attendees of every @RockTape class that I teach: Touch it. Tape it. Move it. If you want your taping application to be be truly effective, especially concerning the neurosensory effect, then you gotta avoid taping in isolation. Step 1: Touch the area you’re going to be taping. Why? So you can assess it and see what the heck is going on and then perform any manual techniques you want to use to intervene. Step 2: Tape the area over which you’re trying to get a response. Step 3: Move it! Movement is medicine, and as such the true benefits of taping are experienced when we work through movement patterns while wearing the tape and allow the tape to help guide and remind our body what it’s supposed to be doing.
Taping in isolation implies that you’ve slapped some tape on your patient and then hoped for the best. Doesn’t really work that way. Get your hands on that person (if you’re legally allowed to) and know why you’re taping that area and what effect you hope it will have. Then after you’ve taped them, get them moving so that you can grease the groove for new movement patterns and help weed out the faulty ones.
Tape does not contain magical unicorn dust that suddenly fixes all your problems as soon as you put it on your skin. Does it work? Absolutely. Do you need to put in work to see carryover and sustained gains? You bet your butt.
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