RECOVERY PATCH

Really helps with my constant shoulder pain. Wear them all the time.

I feel solid support over my strained shoulder with this patch that lasts for several days.

I was really dubious about these patches initially. Then again, I felt the same way about kindesio tape and now know that correctly applied kinesio tape can really help - even for those of us with pain just from "loose joints". Anyways, I have chronic pain in the spine, SI joints and hips. Some of the pain is joint related, some of it is soft tissue related (bursa, fascia, muscle inflammation, etc.). Occasionally in the hip and glute I get redness and/or swelling with the pain. I am on chronic pain medication as well as medication for an autoimmune disorder (which affects my joints), but from time to time I still have flares. So, I decided to try these patches and see if they helped during a flare that caused some swelling along with the pain. I ended up testing the patches on the glutes, hip (around the trochanteric bursa area), the upper quad area and the lower thigh (outside edge - along the IT band). They worked VERY well on the glute, hip, and quad areas. Reduced pain and point tenderness where patch was applied by ~50-60% by day 2/3. They worked OK on the edge of lower thigh/IT band area. Reduced pain and some point tenderness were patch was applied by 30-40%. In my experience, I got more out of an aggressive application of KT tape to this area to relieve pain rather than the edema patch. They were not helpful at all around the SI joint, or on either side of my spine. Pain was reduced by 20% or less. I was surprised about this - I know for a fact that a good portion of my back pain where I applied the edema patch is soft tissue related (muscle/fascia inflammation) and the patches still didn't really do much good. It may be that I need to use 2 patches on the same area to get relief there (?). The instructions in the pkg show how you can stagger two patches over basically the same spot for "additional" relief. I didn't have enough patches on hand to attempt this, partially because the patches didn't stick well on the back at ALL. Conversely, I had no problems getting them to stick on the glutes/hip/thigh areas. For the SI area, I wasn't too surprised that the patches were useless. Yes, I know the pain there is from inflammation (I even get swelling in that area when joint pain gets really bad) but there's also a lot of bone in that area. Ligaments are very deep in that area. I can understand why the patch didn't work well here. I also tested 1 patch on my arm, after I accidentally bumped it and ended up with a really bad looking bruise + goose egg on my upper arm. The patch didn't do much for pain, but it did seem to help with the swelling. After 3 days with the patch, the discoloring wasn't as bad as I would have expected and the swelling was noticeably less.

Works great my wife (female) had a lot of back pain for the past year after using this for 2 days all the pain went away. It’s been 3 weeks without pain. REALLY

Does not help my hip pain enough!

I wasn’t sure how these would perform. I primarily use them on my shoulder when I’m feeling pain. They work great, don’t irritate my skin, don’t leave any adhesive residue and can be worn comfortably for hours.

excellent

I’ve been using different KT products for years now, so I decided to try these expensive recovery patches. It seemed like a convenient way to cover an inflamed area. I followed the directions, as short as they may be. The only result I got from using these is skin irritation. No changes to my achy shoulder

Las utilizo con recomendación del fisioterapeuta. Son ideales para sujetar y ayudar a recuperarse de lesiones

Muy buen producto. Dura adherido como 3 días de ejercicio intenso y baño. Recomendado para dolor en músculos largos del cuerpo.

Great tape. Used it to hold on to glucose monitor and it worked awesome.

Great product

Good prouct