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Kinesio Tape: From anomynity to the spotlight
- By Anne Moss Rogers
- Published 08/23/2008
- Sports & Recreation
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Anne Moss Rogers
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Kinesio tape is used for over 1200 recognized applications including applications for knee injuries, shoulder injuries, back injuries including patella pain, patella tracking, carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder instability, low back pain, shin splints, carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff injury, lateral epicondylitis. And those are just a few of the injuries related to sports medicine.
The basic principal behind Kinesiology tape.
Kinesiology, or Human Kinetics, is the science of human movement. It focuses on how the body moves and functions. The practice of Kinesiology involves applying principals of movement to facilitate rehabilitation, prevention and management to maintain, rehabilitate and enhance movement, performance, and function in the areas of sport, activity and labor.
So what is Kinesio Tape?
It’s not glamorous looking and it is basically looks like a roll of tape based on the principles of Kinesiology. For purposes of sports med, this tape facilitates healing of ligament injuries, muscle conditioning, fascia repositioning and even carpal tunnel syndrome. To be effective, this flexible tape is supposed to be applied to the skin in patterns that mimic the muscles. It is designed to support and guide injured muscles and joints for faster rehabilitation without limiting an athlete’s range of motion.
The Kinesio Tape as well as the K-Active Tape is 100-percent cotton and modeled on the thickness and elasticity of real skin. The flexible tape is applied to the skin in specific patterns, and it doesn’t stick until you warm in with your hands in the application process. So you can lay it down in patterns and not have to unstick it to move it since it doesn’t fuse to the skin until you rub it to warm and activate the glue.
18pt;">From the Kinesio Tape ManufacturerThe basic principal behind Kinesiology tape.
Kinesiology, or Human Kinetics, is the science of human movement. It focuses on how the body moves and functions. The practice of Kinesiology involves applying principals of movement to facilitate rehabilitation, prevention and management to maintain, rehabilitate and enhance movement, performance, and function in the areas of sport, activity and labor.
So what is Kinesio Tape?
It’s not glamorous looking and it is basically looks like a roll of tape based on the principles of Kinesiology. For purposes of sports med, this tape facilitates healing of ligament injuries, muscle conditioning, fascia repositioning and even carpal tunnel syndrome. To be effective, this flexible tape is supposed to be applied to the skin in patterns that mimic the muscles. It is designed to support and guide injured muscles and joints for faster rehabilitation without limiting an athlete’s range of motion.
The Kinesio Tape as well as the K-Active Tape is 100-percent cotton and modeled on the thickness and elasticity of real skin. The flexible tape is applied to the skin in specific patterns, and it doesn’t stick until you warm in with your hands in the application process. So you can lay it down in patterns and not have to unstick it to move it since it doesn’t fuse to the skin until you rub it to warm and activate the glue.
Kinesio tape alleviates pain and facilitates lymphatic drainage by microscopically lifting the skin. This effect provides superior lift for improved circulation of the lymph and blood. The end result is that pressure and irritation are taken off the neural and sensory receptors alleviating pain. It is an elite therapeutic and performance product that will allow superior results and benefits.
Benefits of Kinesiology Tape
Kinesio® Athletic Tape has an elasticity of 140%, which matches the same basic elasticity found in ones skin and muscles which allows Kinesio taping to work with your body. The key benefit Kinesiology Tape is to reduce and prevent contraction of the affected muscle. It accomplishes this by helping to increase the natural blood flow around the muscle facilitating the natural healing process. It can be used to reduce localized swelling associated with surgery. But to athletes, the real benefit is that it helps individuals continue with their normal daily routine and sports activities or speeds up the healing process so there’s less time spent on sidelines as a spectator.
The art of Kinesiology Taping
This is not tape you slap on randomly. It is supposed to be applied in a specific pattern that follows your muscles in a specific way for particular injuries. There are taping seminars to learn to apply it to specific types of injuries to facilitate healing. There are also books and DVDs for practitioners and teaching materials for the athlete to learn to apply it correctly to get benefit from it. water resistant
For more information on this revolutionary development in sports injury rehabilitation see the kinesio tape review. And if you have used it and want to comment, share your experience.