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