Wondering how you can use The Stick to roll knots out of your muscles? Inactivate trigger points? Warm your muscles and increase circulation?

The Stick relieves pain, increases range of motion, promotes flexibility and accelerates recovery. For detailed instructions for the correct use of The Stick, click here for our updated instruction sheet (ENGLISH) (PDF file you can download and print out for future use).

A full body pre-activity warm up or post-activity cool down requires about 8 minutes. Although there are several models, each and every instrument can be directed to any and all major muscle groups.

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Sports

The Stick has become a standard training device at each level of practically every sport. Pre-activity stretching of muscle, without hyper-extending the joint, is a benefit beyond measure in certain sports. Post-activity use enhances and accelerates muscle recovery, which in turn leads to elevation of performance. Professionals report that strength , flexibility, and endurance occur naturally with release of the myofascia and inactivation of offending trigger points.

Healthcare

The Intracell Stick provides myofascial release and trigger point therapy by segmentally elongating muscle bundles. It can simultaneously release multiple lesions in minimal time with virtually no physical effort because of it’s unique design qualities.

The Stick is the Original Massage Roller

We’ve been refining and perfecting the design of The Stick for the better part of three decades now. The original massage roller has millions of fans all over the world, ranging from weekend warriors and everyday people to the most elite and highly-paid professional athletes in the world.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks for choosing the original!

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Why The Stick is still the best massage roller.

We’ve been refining and perfecting the design of The Stick for the better part of three decades now. The original massage roller has millions of fans all over the world, ranging from weekend warriors and everyday people to the most elite and highly-paid professional athletes in the world. Here’s why.

• We make eleven different sizes and styles of The Stick. One to accommodate just about any body size and shape, and to effectively treat most any kind of muscle issue.
• The Stick’s core bends and allows you to treat a much larger area much more comfortably. The flexible core lets you apply
  all the pressure you need to the entire problem area.
• Our rollers are just the right size to give you just the right number of rotations in each backward and forward movement over the muscle. More rotations mean more effective treatment.
• Because there are a whole row of small rollers instead of just one big one, you can bring your hands closer together, allowing you to pinpoint smaller areas very effectively.
• And our rollers are also designed to rock back and forth a little bit. This allows you to more easily find and release that painful trigger point. Big rollers that don’t bend just can’t do that.

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Posture Curve

“As I’m writing this review, I have my posture curve propped up behind me and massaging and supporting my back. If you could see me now! Eyes like Buddha. I often times have tight back muscles up and down either side of my spine. Much of this is due to my posture and having weaker muscles skipping out on their job. Yes, even Pilates teacher and massage therapists have their moments. When I saw this massage tool at TRE (The Running Event) in Austin this past winter, I was immediately drawn to it. If you’re drawn to a firm and specific pressure, this tool is for you. If you slouch all day at your desk, this is for you too.
When you place it behind you, the points press on either side of your spine. The pressure provides feedback to your pelvis and spine and helps your spine to find its natural curves. Of course you can dig into it and reap benefits of a trigger point type of massage while you’re sitting at your desk, (your coworkers might wonder why you’re squirming and oohing and ahing in your seat) but if you place the posture curve so that the points are on either side of your low back and you lean back into your chair, voila, you find your natural curve in your low back. Superb relief from the norm of rounding and slumping forward.
If you wish to get more intense with it, lie down. Be forewarned though, the Posture Curve is hard and offers no cushion. Low back pain is often associated with tightness in the glutes as well. Place the Posture Curve at tender spots on the hips and simply breathe while the tension releases. This is no joke. For those of you who like specific work and deep therapeutic relief, I do recommend this tool. For those who recoil at the thought of pressure points, you may have to work your way up to using this tool for trigger point work.

The Posture Curve also partnered up with the makers of The Stick and The Trigger Wheel. Both are equally great massage tools to have on hand or keep in the office. I especially like the Trigger Wheel. You can throw it in your purse.” (Read full article: Top 5 Massage Tools of 2015).

Please let us know if you have any questions about the Posture Curve; Contact RPI of Atlanta (manufacturer of the Posture Curve).

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SOURCES: Queens Chronicle and Brooklyn Fans:

In my opinion, the most important booth at the Marathon Expo didn’t belong to an apparel manufacturer but rather to Atlanta-based Intracell Technology, which was selling “The Stick” (thestick.com). The company’s motto is that “The Stick is like a toothbrush for your muscles.”

The Stick is a rod composed of various circular beads that massage the iliotibial (better known as simply “IT”) band of the leg. The IT band is the ligament that runs along the outside of the thigh from the hip down to the shin. It easily gets sore and painful with even a minimal amount of everyday wear and tear, let alone exercise. The Stick massages that area and improves circulation, which greatly reduces pain.

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Source “Connect Club Run” review of The Stick: “One of our favorite things about a long run or hard workout is coming home and getting to use The Stick. Our friends from the makers of The Stick were kind enough to send us one of their Sprinter Sticks to test out over the span of a couple months to see how it could help us recover!

Here are our thoughts…” CONTINUE READING AT CONNECT CLUB RUN

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The Hybrid Stick: New 23-inch version of the Stick, a popular recovery/self-massage device that includes two handles and 13 beveled plastic spindles, including a raised center bevel that allows users to roll out muscles like pizza dough.

Likes: Idiot-proof, bomb-proof and effective. The raised, gently rounded center spindle, combined with the device’s slight flexibility, allows for deep penetration into tight spots that the regular Stick can’t reach. Good for quick, precise targeting of trouble spots like the calf muscles and the iliotibial bands in the outer thighs. Inexpensive and compact, the 12-ounce Hybrid is easy to bring to races or the gym for warm-up and recovery. No wonder it’s beloved by runners, football players and other athletes.

Dislikes: None

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, Gear: Ways to work out the kinks (full article)

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A gizmo that’s good for you – what more could a man ask? We test the latest hi-tech, healthy gadgets…

The Stick

Perfect for runners who complain about their aches and pains. £31.99, from www.the-stick.co.uk and branches of Runners Need (020 7278 9486, runnersneed.co.uk)

One of the nicest things about taking part in the Great South Run earlier this year was the post-race massage. An army of physios were on hand to rub away the aches, which really did help. Alas, attempts at persuading my partner to massage the knots away are not always successful. And splashing out on a sports massage is a bit of an extravagance. So this Christmas, I’m hoping for a new piece of kit called the Stick, so I can do the job myself.

Shaped like a magic wand, the flexible rod is made up of spindles that roll independently of each other. The idea is to hold it at either end and roll it up and down the core muscles of the legs.

It can be used before exercise to loosen muscles or as a recovery tool afterwards. Flexing the stick around the leg ensures that pressure is applied evenly across the spindles, so they work like the kneading fingers of an expert masseur. And it achieves the same result – restoring life to damaged muscle tissue. This isn’t something I’d normally buy myself – which makes it the ideal gift. And as staying injury-free is a constant battle, the Stick could be a very useful weapon in my armoury (Read full article here).

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