#whereas theoretically the brace lasts like years or whatever. and was also free.

[queenbeyondthewalll]

You know, I’m sort of amazed that none of the countless medical professionals in the like… half dozen or so different specialties I’ve dealt with in the last like 15 years ever went, ‘hey, perhaps KT tape would help with your terrible body?’

Nooo, instead it’s ‘let’s build you more and more thick, heavy, plastic casts to strap you into that are inconvenient at best to move around in. Let’s recommend fusing your dominant thumb in place’

I’ve had KT tape on that thumb for about a day after not wearing that wildly inconvenient brace for months, and a couple strips of tape have brought almost equivalent amounts of relief as the custom made brace, and bonus! my dominant thumb is still opposable with the tape