RECOVERY PATCH

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

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.

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.

These are absolutely amazing!! I just recently started buying kt tape for my husband, whose aches range from an old knee injury from being a rancher to a consistent dislocating thumb/carpal tunnel due to hunting and fishing as a career. The first time I convinced him to let me tape him up, we were hooked! I came across these recovery patches and I thought wed give them a try, since the tape was such a success. The only complaint we have is that there arent more in a package!! My husband is an avid hunting and fishing guide, constantly in the elements sometimes for days at a time, and these suckers stay on... and STAY WORKING THE WHOLE TIME!!! Through tall grassland to wade fishing these little suckers are indestructable. The pain relief and the way they help keep inflamation down blows my mind! We are definately life long customers!!!

Good product, works well

I expected this to have the same adhesion as normal ktape. It does not have the same strong adhesive that last a few days. I couldn't get the 1st one to stay on. Maybe my skin to dry to adhere? Won't purchase in future

My wife has an injured right arm and the tape helps with support.

Waste of time! Products stick together and are not useable

These patches are so wonderful some days my knees are so swollen from inflammation and after putting these on the swelling is gone in no time. They have jumped high in price is the only down fall :( and can not buying them in a drug store etc ....Amazon please lower the price as they are a life saver .

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 product

100 as described