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Announcement: I have a new article about Kinesio Tape® and similar products, which explains that therapeutic taping is mainly just a sensation tweaker, and that’s fine as far as it goes. We humans are neurological input-output machines. We constantly, systematically, creatively tinker with how we feel … touch-testing the world. This is why I have no strong objection to therapeutic taping, but also why I will probably never be impressed by it: it’s just another method of playing with how our bodies feel, one of many. But it will never trump functional challenges as the main drivers of recovery and performance. The bottom line is always going to be that we have to push ourselves a little to get better than we are — and being taped just isn’t much of a challenge.
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