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Suction Therapy Seems To Be The Latest Trend For Olympians and Movie Stars Alike, But What Is It Exactly? Pictures of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps covered in strange, circular bruises have caused a massive spike in interest in what is known as “cupping therapy.” Other big names like Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston have also been spotted with similar markings. The technique involves applying negative pressure to a person’s underlying sore tissue using a tool that resembles a suction cup. New York physical therapist Michael Mancuso explained that this ancient practice is typically used on the patient’s back to stretch...
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...
