Now available as an Equinox Spa treatment, kinesiology taping will support your recovery after a tough workout or injury.
Many of the biohack-y recovery tools that are trendy today have roots in instinctive human behavior. Take cold plunges, for example. Long before ice tubs were all over TikTok, you may have instinctively taken a cold shower after an especially tough workout just because it felt good. Kinesiology tape — a therapeutic adhesive tape now offered as a recovery treatment in Equinox Spas — is another technique that pulls from that same principle: Your body knows what it needs before you’ve even really thought about it.
“Kinesiology tape acts like a ‘big Band-Aid’ in a way,” explains Angel David Rojas, the area Spa manager for Equinox’s Westside NYC Clubs. “When you bang your elbow, your first reaction is to comfort and hold the area.” And that’s basically what kinesiology tape does. Only, unlike taking a couple of seconds to self-soothe, kinesiology tape keeps it up for days, helping you to move through injury and feel better faster and for longer.