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  1. jgottsch

    I found this to be incredibly interesting. Recovery is a much larger component of sports than many people realize, and doing it effectively is even harder. I know you talk about recovery from injury specifically, but are there ways to implement this into everyday recovery for athletes? Hopefully we don’t have to many athletes using this for injury recovery, but finding a way to implement for daily recovery would make a huge difference in training and competition.

  2. cthomas10

    The strategies to increase the blood circulation after an injury are KT tapping, cupping therapy, and laser therapy. I am very familiar with KT tapping, although, I never really knew how it worked exactly. It is fairly common in the athletic world, but as stated in literature review, it has no affect in a healthy environment. The other two I do not think I have every used or even heard of. This information seems valid to me, even though I do not know much about it, because every time I got hurt, the athletic trainers told me, “You need to get the blood flowing in there.” At least I know for the future what some of their options are.

  3. ksalinas9

    Kenzie,

    I really enjoyed reading about your three strategies, KT taping, cupping therapy, and laser therapy. I have had cupping therapy before but never KT taping or laser therapy. Being an athlete or a trainer I can see how it is beneficial to understand how these three therapy’s can help an injured athlete according to their type of injury.
    I read in your literature review that KT taping is not a successful strategy when trying to increase blood flow but cupping and laser therapy are. If it is not beneficial when trying to increase blood flow, should it still be included in your action plan?

  4. cbriseno4

    Kenzie,

    I found your paper to be very informational and beneficial to my future coaching career. As a former student athlete I was constantly getting treatment because of sprained ankles, soreness, plantarfaciitis or just to keep the body right. I have been a patient of KT taping, laser therapy and a victim of cupping. I personally liked the KT tape but I the only thing different is that the chiropractor who introduced me to it used biofreeze on top of the taping and I found that to help. Although, in your paper is states that it is not beneficial to blood flow so what is it exactly doing that helps athletes? Cupping was never one of my favorite things because I felt the pain either worsen or stay the same, but that could just be my body or biased opinion. The laser therapy has been one of my favorites and reading your essay I can see the benefits from it. One thing I have studied as a personal trainer is that myofacia release is another strategy athletes can use to eliminate barriers or knots and allow blood flow to increase to the sore areas and heal quicker. Just a thought to add to your strategies! Good ideas!

  5. ataramona

    Kinzee,
    I found your paper very interesting and informative. I have known about KT tape, but have learned about cupping and laser therapy just recently. I feel like this is something that all athletic trainers should be aware of in order to be the most effective for the athletic training team, athletes, and the sports team as a whole. I also like how you plan on performing each experiment group at different times so there is not confusion or overloading that athletic trainers that will be working on the study. I did have a couple questions throughout the process: 1) should variables like time of year/ weather/ elevation/ climate effect blood flow? 2) Will these studies be performed on the same/similar injuries or will they just be performed on injuries as a whole?
    Good job and very informative paper!

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