"I've tried braces. I've tried physical therapy. Literally everything."
Travis Miller, drummer. On tour with Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan.
Filmed backstage at Vans Warped Tour, Long Beach.
The knee gave out in 2024.
He was jumping off a drum riser every single night. Touring does that — the same landing, the same joint, a hundred shows deep, and eventually something stops absorbing it.
What follows is the part every touring musician and every athlete knows by heart. You try the brace. You try the physio. You try the thing your friend swore by. Some of it helps a bit. None of it fits the actual problem, which is that you have to walk on stage in four hours regardless.
That last part is the whole thing. Not rest it. Not sit this one out. Something you put on before the set that lets the set happen.
Support you can wear under your clothes.
A brace announces itself. It's bulky, it's visible, and it changes how you move — which is fine in a physio room and useless on a stage.
Kinesiology tape does the supporting job from the outside without any of that. Thin enough to disappear under jeans. Built to hold through sweat and a full performance.
Nobody in the crowd knows it's there. That's the point.
The other half of the bundle got there by accident.
Flying to Milwaukee for Summerfest, packing the bag that actually gets used. He put the headache patches in a story, and then had to keep answering questions about them.
Packing for Summerfest.
So we put the two together.
The tape that goes on before the set, and the patch that goes in the carry-on. What he actually uses, in one box.
Blue Splatter Tape
Drug-free, infused with magnesium and menthol. Synthetic silk for a second-skin feel — thin enough to disappear under clothes, built to hold through sweat, movement and a full performance. Latex free and hypoallergenic.
Relax Headache Patch
Magnesium, menthol and chamomile. Goes on your temples, your forehead or the back of your neck. Drug-free, so there's nothing swallowed and nothing to counteract the rest of the day.
The Travis Miller Bundle
1 roll of Blue Splatter Tape · 1 box of Relax Headache Patches
Both drug-free. Both worn on the outside.
Quick answers
How do I tape a knee?
Clean, dry skin with no lotion underneath. Anchor below the kneecap, run strips up either side, and stretch the middle of the strip rather than the ends. There's a full walkthrough in our taping guides.
Will it hold through a whole show?
It's designed to stay on for days, through sweat, showers and sleep. Apply it to clean dry skin and rub it in for a few seconds to activate the adhesive before you get moving.
Does it actually disappear under clothes?
It's thin synthetic silk rather than thick cotton. Under jeans or stage trousers there's no visible bulk — which is the reason Travis uses it instead of a brace.
Is it drug-free? I get tested.
Yes. Both products are drug-free, and the tape is Informed-Sport certified — the banned-substance testing standard used across professional sport.
Where do the headache patches go?
Temples, forehead, or the back of the neck. Twelve per box: eight cloud shape and four moon shape. Don't apply to broken or irritated skin.
Does this replace physical therapy?
No. It's drug-free support designed to sit alongside whatever your care team already has you doing, not instead of it. If a joint keeps giving out, get it looked at.
These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and are not a substitute for medical care. Travis Miller is a paid Heali partner.
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