today’s mumble will be of the utmost brevity as typing is rather as struggle at the moment. Today we’re talking tensors, those stretchy elastic bandages that alleviate strain and help damaged muscles heal safely.
Y’all are probably familiar with ye old classic tensor, the long single elastic bandage. It can be wrapped around nearly anything and everything and is always a good goto for general strains and sprains. However, time marches on and so does progress and now there are specially designed tensors for nearly every body part. Before your most important skill for using a tensor was figuring out how to wrap that sucker, now it’s picking the right specialty product for the job.
Take a look at this fancy one I’m sporting:
This here beasty is specifically for holding your thumb in place it’s got a strip of metal that runs along the outside of the brace and protects the thumb from strain and overuse while it heals. The hand and wrist sections serve to anchor the brace. It’s kind of 1/4 splint and 3/4 tensor. Now of course if it was your wrist that was the problem you would want to get the similar looking wrist brace that has only an open thumb hole. It’s focus is on the wrist so the metal runs along the back or sides of the wrist to hold them in place.
They’ve got knee tensors, ankle tensors, shoulder tensors, tensor sleeves, elbow tensors, wrist tensors, thumb tensors, I think I saw a toe tensor even. If you’ve got a problem joint, muscle or tendon there is a specialized tensor with your name it. As someone who has had to partake heavily of specialized tensors this is a freaking godsend.