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09 May 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome

As you may recall from our intro post on kinesiology taping, we’re going to focus on each muscle group/joint and show you how to use kinesiology tape in three distinct ways:

Immediately after injury  (for swelling and pain)
During the healing process (correction techniques to restore normal position and allow for healing)
Techniques to help improve strength [...]

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25 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Posterior Tibialis- step 2

As you may recall from our intro post on kinesiology taping, we’re going to focus on each muscle group/joint and show you how to use kinesiology tape in three distinct ways:

Immediately after injury  (for swelling and pain
During the healing process (correction techniques to restore normal position and allow for healing)
Techniques to help improve strength [...]

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21 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Calf + Achilles- step 2

As you may recall from our intro post on kinesiology taping, we’re going to focus on each muscle group/joint and show you how to use kinesiology tape in three distinct ways:

Immediately after injury  (for swelling and pain
During the healing process (correction techniques to restore normal position and allow for healing)
Techniques to help improve strength [...]

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03 February 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Posterior Tib Mobilization

In this post I’m going to show you how to use the tennis ball to mobilize the the posterior tibialis muscle which is underneath the gastroc and soleus muscles in the calf. The goal with this mobilization is to anchor one [...]

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12 April 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Self Muscle Massage- Pt 1 The Calf

In the introduction to the Self Muscle Massage series, we discussed and demonstrated the three different techniques that will be used. Click here if you missed them or would like to review them.
In this part of the series, we’re going to start with the calf muscles. They play a major role in shock [...]

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