Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

HEALING YOURSELF WITH MOVEMENT | Rock Tape | Greg van den Dries & Steven Capobianco

17 Nov 2017 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Steven Capobianco explains the purpose of an elastic therapeutic tape (Rock Tape). He describes the "biomechanical lifting effect": the tape recoils and lifts skin away from underlying tissue, stimulating skin receptors that (1) modulate/decrease pain and improve body awareness, and (2) improve fluid dynamics (reducing swelling, improving blood flow and fluid movement), which together enhance function.

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What is the actual purpose of the tape itself? I mean, what is this doing for the system, for the biomechanics?
Let's have a conversation about an elastic strip of tape that recoils when applied to your skin. It creates what we call the biomechanical lifting effect, which pulls the skin away from the underlying tissue. And it does a couple of things. One, it stimulates these receptors in your skin that communicate with your brain and help do two things, modulate pain or decrease pain, as well as give you better awareness. And the other effect of lifting the skin away from the tissue is it improves fluid dynamics. And what that means is it improves swelling, it improves blood flow, and just a shuttle of fluid in the body, which improves your function.