Another anecdote - I told the physio who I see for sports massage about voodoo flossing, and lent her my spare band on Monday. She tried it out on her 3 month old knee injury and reported today that she found it to be the most effective treatment yet for improving pain-free range of motion. Said she was suitably impressed that she's going to research it more so that she may be able to offer it to clients.
I have been wrapping and flossing a sore knee and I am sure it helps with short term pain reduction and increased ROM. I am not sure if it makes any long term difference to the rate of recovery, but it is hard to say definatively as I only have one knee (that is sore).
Them lower trapezius exercises which cofe has been 'prescribed' are helping my elbows I reckon.
I shall try this out on my permafucked left middle finger. If it works, I'm moving for it to be renamed a less pseudoscientific bullshit-sounding name.
It worked wonders on my left shoulder which is full of old scar tissue from a 7 years-old rotator cuff tear to 3 of the 4 rc muscles. One session of flossing gave better pain-free ROM than any physio ever has.Flossing didn't produce any noticeable results on my injured bicep longhead tendon in my other arm/shoulder. It neither aggravated nor improved it.The physio I see fairly regularly tried it out on her injured knee (fell-running fall) and reported it gave noticeable improved pain-free ROM. She ditched it when was able to continue other rehab stuff.It seems good for older injuries/scar tissue - better than self massage/sports massage IMO.