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Low Back Decompression Taping

Learn how to decompress and support your low back with low back decompression taping in this easy to follow step-by-step video. Taping can help reduce pain, improve posture, and support your strength and mobility.

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00:04 - 00:07This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute, bringing you another taping
00:07 - 00:12technique. In this video we're going to do a low back decompression taping. Now
00:12 - 00:16this taping is meant to help maybe alleviate a little pain, or a little low
00:16 - 00:19back soreness. It's not necessarily meant to change movement patterns, however it
00:19 - 00:24does come in handy. The idea behind this taping is to potentially change efferentation,
00:24 - 00:28the input that is going into somebody's central nervous system, and
00:28 - 00:33potentially this decompression. The word is implying that we're hopefully
00:33 - 00:37creating a little bit more space between these layers of fascia, connective tissue
00:37 - 00:43and skin. Hoping to improve circulation, assist that inflammatory process, and
00:43 - 00:46assist the healing process. I'm gonna have my friend Melissa come out, she's
00:46 - 00:50going to help me demonstrate. This taping it's very very simple, I'm going to have
00:50 - 00:54her go ahead and get into Child's Pose. I want a little bit of flexion in the
00:54 - 00:57spine.Iif she couldn't get into Child's Pose like this, I could have her just
00:57 - 01:02hunched over, straight leg at the end of the table like this, and apply the tape.
01:02 - 01:09Now i am using 4 inch tape, so 4 inch wide tape. You could use two strips of 2
01:09 - 01:14inch tape if you needed to, but i do like this big daddy tape from Rocktape. I'm
01:14 - 01:19going to go ahead and measure out just shorter than the width of her back, fold
01:19 - 01:22over here,
01:25 - 01:36go ahead cut my tape, remember to round your corners guys. So I'm going to fold
01:36 - 01:49this in half just like so, around both corners at the same time, there we go. Now
01:49 - 01:54my next step just go ahead and prep Melissa's clothes here. So I'm going to
01:54 - 01:57go ahead and lift up your shirt so I can see her low back, and then if her pants
01:57 - 02:01are coming up too high what I'll usually do is just kind of fold down the top of
02:01 - 02:11their waistband like so. Now I'm going to fold my rock tape in half. I'm going to
02:11 - 02:16tear right in the middle of the paper, just by pulling through the elasticity
02:16 - 02:25of the tape. I'm going to make sure I pull back my paper edges here.
02:32 - 02:38Sometimes the paper gets a little tricky. Now i'm going to ask Melissa where are
02:38 - 02:41you feeling pain in your back. So i'm gonna ask her to actually point to the
02:41 - 02:47segment. Ok so right over where she just pointed to guys, I have my ends like
02:47 - 02:53this, so my ends are now covered with paper. I want fifty percent stretching
02:53 - 02:55the tape, so I'm going to go ahead and pull all the way to a hundred percent
02:55 - 03:02and then back off fifty percent. I'm going to put that tape right over the
03:02 - 03:06top of where she just pointed her fingers to. I'm going to rub the
03:06 - 03:10stretched portion in just a little bit, and then I'm going to pull the paper
03:10 - 03:16ends off. Remember I don't want any any sort of stretch in my anchors alright, so
03:16 - 03:22the anchors are now stretch free, just like so, and then once again pull
03:22 - 03:29the tape off this anchor, put the anchor down with no stretch. So that just
03:29 - 03:35created an area of tape where there's no stretch on the end, stretch through the
03:35 - 03:40middle kind of pull on everything together, and then no stretch here. And
03:40 - 03:46like I said, this has a tendency to change the input right. We've given her a
03:46 - 03:51competing sensory input for her low back that's not pain, that's actually a really
03:51 - 03:56big thing, and then just the pulling everything together like this might help
03:56 - 04:03to decompress those layers, helping to improve circulation. Of course the next
04:03 - 04:08thing I'd have my patient do is go ahead and stand up, let me know how she's
04:08 - 04:14feeling, feel better, oh yeah, nice all right.
04:14 - 04:18I'll look forward to hearing about your results, your outcomes, you're going to
04:18 - 04:22see we're going to use this exact same decompression taping, in some more
04:22 - 04:26advanced taping techniques that we're going to teach later on. I'll talk with
04:26 - 04:28you guys soon.
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