Subject: RE: THE STICK. Any advice...I think I got mine for $28. It is a semi flexible rod about 18 inches long with rubber gribs at the ends and 1 inch plastic rollers along the middle rod. The rollers under pressure break up areas of your muscles that have knotted together and cause pain or at least undue stiffness. One rolls the rod across sore muscle group breaking up the muscle bundles allowing for them to "let go of each other "think of a flickering flouresen't tube with the flickers being muscles twitching tight and loose for no functional reason" then the muscles can relax, heal and be ready for functional use. It is especialy good on that muscle just outside of your shin (shin splints ) as well as that area on the outside of the calf muscle up near the knee from biking etc.
The expression "hurts so good" is very applicable. In a movie with Tom Sellak where he was playing an older baseball player and went to Japan or whatever to play baseball to prove he wasn't washed up he got very sore and went in to get a massage, which he later refered to as the "massage of death" because the masues broke up those muscle clumbs and it was not comfortable.
My wife sometimes looks at me oddly when I am using the stick on a IT band or whatever as I go oh... owe.... ah... thats a little better ya there we go. Between the Marathon Stick and icing after long runs, no shin splints in 8 months after not being able to run at all for a bit. I was litterally gtg back to normal running inside 1 week. In my opinion a very well spent $28.
Oh, I also used it on my neck after my first HIM last week. Neck was a little sore after the bike and feeling pretty good now. Edited by Baowolf 2008-10-04 12:01 PM
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