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Occasionally we field inquiries, even from athletic trainers about the tensile strength of athletic tape. Tensile strength is a way in which athletic tape is measured – different styles of tape have different tensile strengths. Those styles have different applications and there are a myriad of options in each athletic tape style. We'll address each one of those styles or varieties below.  High Tensile Athletic Tape: Heavy Weight elastics like J&J Elastikon, Mueller Stretch MTape Premium, Cramer Super Stretch Non-Tear Tape, Hartman AC Tape and Jaybird Jaylastic Plus are high tensile tapes. Generally these are used to add extra support...

The Ice Machine - its one piece of equipment that almost every athletic training room uses. Whether you're filling coolers with water and ice for practice, a whirlpool for to use as a cold soak or just an ice bag to be used as treatment ice - nearly every athletic training room uses ice. A lot of ice. Sometimes several hundreds pounds per day. So what are the main considerations in a sports medicine setting for purchasing an ice machine? Having literally sold hundreds of ice machines to athletic training room settings - and learning a lot about them along the way...