Taping
Tape is commonly used by physiotherapists to: relieve your pain, improve joint stability, enhance athlete confidence, reduce injury recurrence, prevent injury.
There are different kinds of tape that can be employed:
- Kinesio Taping
- Rigid Taping
- McConnell Taping
- Athletic Taping
Descriptions of all the taping:-
1. Kinesio Taping
Kinesiology taping (KT) is a therapeutic tool and has become increasingly popular within the sporting arena. Taping has been used for a long time for the prevention and treatment of sporting injuries. KT is not only used for sporting injuries but for a variety of other conditions. It was developed by Japanaese Chiropractor Dr. Kenzo Kase in the 1970's with the intention to alleviate pain and improve the healing in soft tissues. There are many proposed benefits to KT, including: proprioceptive facilitation; reduced muscle fatigue; muscle facilitation; reduced delayed-onset muscle soreness; pain inhibition; enhanced healing, such as reducing oedema, and improvement of lymphatic drainage and blood flow
2. Rigid Taping
Elastoplast Rigid Strapping Tape is a robust supportive tape that stabilizes joints during vigorous physical activity in all conditions. Effective in both preventative and rehabilitation taping techniques. Restricts the movement of ligaments, tendons, and joints to prevent injury or re-injury under high-stress conditions. Constructed to be as stable as possible with a rubber zinc oxide adhesive mass.
The athletic tape is flesh colored with pink edges. The pink edges provide quicker application while simultaneously eliminating threading. Be sure to seek advice from a physiotherapist if you’re unsure about the most effective strapping techniques.
3. McConnell Taping
McConnell taping (also known as Patellar Taping) is often used to treat patients with anterior knee pain, more specifically with patients with Chondromalacia Patellae and Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome). The tape corrects the tracking of the patella within the patellar groove by medializing the patella. The technique also stretches lateral soft tissues and strengthens the vastus medialis obliques.
4. Athletic Taping
Tape is a tool, a tool that serves a million and one functions. It supports. It secures. It prevents. The tape is one of the foundations of athletic training. Those little white rolls are as integral to game day as a ball or a helmet. But the tape doesn’t exist on an island. It needs underwrap, adhesives and scissors to do its job. Cramer provides all of the taping and wrapping supplies an athletic trainer needs to get a team on the field as quickly and easily as possible.
