kinesio tapping??

[fapt]

Hi, somasimplers

Have you ever heard of kinesio tapping technique?
This is so popular in Taiwan.
I don't know that why it is so popular.
But i have never used this yet.
I try to search some Medline and PunMed to fine what it is effect in patients.
But i fall. There are no papers, which told about this technique.
Did someone can help me plz.
I want to know what it can do for what patiens if they should be needed.

Because i want to build the Evidence-based up. One day. i will tell my patient the correct information.

Thanks a lot.... :lol:

This is the picture
http://www.accuratus.com.tw/detail.php?itemno=AP030&mk=4

[bernard]

Hi Lin,

I'm an ignorant about this technique but I found these papers for you.
I had no time to read them for the moment;
Just type taping in PubMed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15373008
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15314418
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15165599
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15128190
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15085217
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14703615
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12968857
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12937565
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12937439
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12918865
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12869456

Diane ans some other Somasimplers use taping.
Perhaps they will give some answers?

[Diane]

Hi fapt,
I l-o-v-e kinesio tape. I use it as my first choice intervention on myself if I develop pain, and have worked out lots of ways to tape that are easy and minimal but effective. There is a study I found from Albequerque, US, that you can find if you just google "kinesio tape". It's pdf, so I can't post a link unfortunately.

The researchers taped lower legs in the way outlined in the manual and tested proprioception, on 10 or 12 patients. Their testing indicated that peoples' proprioception wasn't improved by the tape. But these were normals, not patients. Also, perhaps the techniques were too rigidly adherent to what was in the manual. I noticed in the Athens Olympics that many of the athletes were taped with kinesio tape, the Chinese in particular, swimmers and gymnasts, but also other teams, beach volleyball players with tape around their knees, weightlifters with their deltoids taped.. a performance enhancing substance that's legal!?

http://www.somasimple.com/forums3/viewtopic.php?t=498 This link goes to a forum further down, a description of an experience I had with a persistant pain patient just last week. It is my conviction that the tape really helped her proprioception. And her fear of pain melted away at the same time.
Cheers,
Diane

[fapt]

oh...
Great......
Thanks :D

[bernard]

Hi All,

It's pdf, so I can't post a link unfortunately.

You can provide a pdf link coming from the net. We provide such links on Somasimple. Open it on your browser and then copy the link displayed!

[Diane]

My browser has a download manager which immediately sucks the pdf into my computer and no link is ever displayed. I have to open the pdf from the manager, cannot from a link. It's a bit of a pain. I will send you it as a file Bernard, maybe you can link it here somehow.
Diane

[bernard]

Diane,

Just send me the file and I'll put it again on the net.

[Diane]

Here is a link to the html version:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:fjIKl5MDk6cJ:www20.uludag.edu.tr/~hakan/sbtd/vol3/n1/1/v3n1-1pdf.pdf+kinesio+tape&hl=en
(One of those horrible page- stretching addresses!)
Diane

[bernard]

Diane,

Here is the pdf one! :wink:
http://www20.uludag.edu.tr/~hakan/sbtd/vol3/n1/1/v3n1-1pdf.pdf