I just want to post a quick update here about using Rogue Voodoo Floss for tendonitis. I may decide to expand this post later, but for now, I’ll just say that it didn’t work for me.
I’ve been lifting weights for over 40 years and still spend a lot of time in the gym. And while I know quite a bit about how to prevent and cure tendon pain, I’m in my upper 50’s and the body simply doesn’t work as well as it used to. So even being careful and with best practices, I still do occasionally get some tendon pain.
Of course I know how to fix it when it does occur. But this time around I wanted to try the Voodoo floss method and see how that worked. Long story short, it didn’t. I had some elbow tendonitis, on the inside (generally knows as Golfer’s Elbow, even though I don’t golf), and figured it would be easy to wrap with a Voodoo Floss band.
So I tried it, keeping the tension around 75%, which is what’s usually recommended, and gave it a couple of weeks. While my arm did feel a little better during the workout after using the band, the tendon pain slowly got worse. This is generally a sign that tendonitis is morphing into tendonosis (a much worse condition), so after two weeks I gave up and went back to the methods I explain in Target Tendonitis. And got better pretty quickly.