Why I Built FlossPoint
I built FlossPoint because nothing I was using with my athletes was actually solving the problem.
That's not a marketing line. After seven years working as Team Chiropractor for University of Kentucky Athletics — working with NCAA record holders, national champions, and Olympic athletes — I kept running into the same pattern. An athlete would present with a restriction. I'd treat it. It would improve. They'd return to training and it would come right back.
Foam rolling. Massage guns. Scraping. Compression. All of it provided temporary relief. None of it was holding up under training load. I needed to understand why.
The Problem With Standard Recovery Tools
Every standard recovery tool shares one fundamental characteristic: they work on tissue while you're still.
Foam rollers apply vertical compression — force directed straight down into the tissue. Massage guns deliver percussive compression at rest. Scraping tools work at the tissue surface while you're lying on a table. Even standard floss bands, which are used during movement, create uniform circumferential compression without specifically targeting tissue interfaces.
These tools change how tissue feels. They don't change how tissue performs under load.
The distinction matters because of what's actually happening when an athlete develops a restriction.
What's Happening at the Tissue Level
Tissue layers are designed to slide past each other during movement — muscle over fascia, fascia over skin. This sliding is what allows a calf to lengthen and shorten through a full sprint stride, what allows a hamstring to hinge under load during a Romanian deadlift, what allows an ankle to dorsiflex at the bottom of a squat without restriction.
When those sliding surfaces lose their ability to glide — due to previous injury, accumulated training volume, or repeated stress through limited movement patterns — you get restriction, friction, and eventually overuse injury. The tissue isn't too short. It can't tolerate the sliding demand being placed on it.
This is a load tolerance problem at the tissue interface. And it requires an intervention that works at the tissue interface — under load, during movement.
Think of two pieces of fabric stuck together. Pressing straight down on them doesn't free them. Pulling them sideways while applying a little pressure does. Standard recovery tools press down. The restriction requires something that pulls sideways — during the movement, not before it.
What Directional Shear Actually Means
The force that challenges tissue interfaces to slide is called shear force — force applied parallel to the tissue surface rather than perpendicular to it.
Standard tools create compressive force: perpendicular to the surface, tissue flattens, interfaces are pushed together. Directional shear is different: parallel to the surface, interfaces are challenged to move relative to each other.
For a tissue interface to restore its ability to glide under load, it needs to be challenged with shear forces during the conditions where sliding demand is highest — under load, during movement.
That's the gap I kept running into clinically. And that's what FlossPoint is designed to address.
How FlossPoint Works
FlossPoint combines focal compression with directional shear during movement. The band wraps around the restriction. Three removable ShearPoints — dome-shaped grips that attach directly to the band — create focal compression at specific tissue interfaces rather than even pressure across the entire wrap.
When you move under focal compression, the ShearPoints generate directional shear between tissue layers while those layers are being asked to slide. The restriction is loaded during the movement causing it — not pressed on while you're still.
The MSK ultrasound shows exactly what's different. The lighter lines in an ultrasound image represent the boundaries between tissue layers. Under standard compression, those layers flatten together. Under FlossPoint with active movement, the interfaces are challenged to move relative to each other. That lateral movement — visible, measurable — is directional shear at the tissue interface.
Seven Years in the Making
The mechanism behind FlossPoint wasn't developed in a lab. It was developed on the treatment tables of a Power 4 athletic program, refined through thousands of clinical applications with athletes whose careers depend on staying healthy under extraordinary training demand.
The original version — the CTM Band — has been in clinical use since 2019. More than 5,600 units sold before FlossPoint launched. The mechanism was validated. The materials needed to catch up.
FlossPoint is what that looks like: same proven mechanism, significantly improved band durability, and ShearPoints with better tissue engagement and attachment stability during high-velocity movement.
The Protocol
The application is straightforward:
- Load the movement first — do the movement causing the restriction. Note where in the range it breaks down. That's where the ShearPoints go.
- Position ShearPoints — 1-3 based on the size of the restriction area
- Wrap with moderate tension — enough to create noticeable resistance, not enough to restrict circulation or prevent full movement
- Move for 2-3 minutes — deliberate, controlled movement through the restricted range
- Remove and reassess — test the movement under actual training load
The restriction tells you exactly where to put it. The movement is the mechanism. Reassessment under load is the only valid test of whether it worked.
Who FlossPoint Is For
FlossPoint is for restrictions that keep coming back despite standard treatment. Athletes with chronic calf tightness during running. Lifters with ankle restriction at the bottom of a squat. Runners with plantar pain during push-off. Clinicians looking for a tool that works during movement rather than before it.
It's not a passive recovery device. It's not a compression sleeve for extended wear. It's a mechanical loading tool for restrictions that live under load — and it works during the movement, not before it.
Movement is the medicine.™
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