Kinesiology tape is a great way for medical professionals to help patients with discomfort. Kinesiology taping can be used to supplement treatment plans for a patient, it's much less expensive, and has many benefits.
Table of Contents:
- How to improve the patient's movement with kinesiology tapes?
- How comfortable are kinesiology tapes?
- How can kin tapes help in preventing risk for injury?
- How to use kinesiology tapes to support muscle injuries?
- Can kinesiology tapes help in improving the patient’s blood and fluid circulation?
- How to use kinesiology tapes for joint irritation?
- What can kinesiology tapes do to improve a patient’s posture?
- Will kinesiology tape help to treat swelling and inflammation?
- How does kinesiology tape help in a patient's recovery?
- Conclusion
If you’re a physical therapist, chiropractor, or medical professional looking to incorporate more kinesiology tape when treating patients, read along! We’re here to remind you of some of the benefits that you and your patients are missing out on for not utilizing kinesiology tapes enough.
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We’ll go over some of the most important reasons why it's so beneficial for you AND your patients to use this tool more often!
Allows your Patient to Move
Designed to mimic the skin, kinesiology tape is elastic, breathable, and moves as the body moves. It’s why it’s such an ideal tool to give support to muscles and joints without having to restrict movement.
Perfect for patients who are athletes, folks who have active lifestyles, or for people who have labor-intensive jobs, kinesiology tape can still do what they’re intended to do without much fuss.
Kinesiology taping improves mobility by decreasing pain caused by common injuries or reducing the risk of injury before strenuous activity. For instance, kinesiology tape is commonly used to treat knee injuries.
More Comfortable than Braces & Wraps
Unlike braces and wraps, kinesiology tapes bring a barely-there feel that makes it comfortable for your patients to go about their daily activities without feeling restricted. Much better than athletic tape when it comes to accommodating movement, kin tapes also give your patient a wider range of motion.
What’s more, since kin tapes are designed to be long-lasting, your patients can wear them for several days, unlike traditional wraps or athletic tape.
Help Patients Reduce Risk for Injury
By supporting weaker limbs, it helps prevent injuries. It’s also perfect for professional athletes who are always moving. Do you have patients that are in the sports arena? If so, they can benefit a lot from taping!
Provide Patients More Support for Muscle Injuries
Kinesiology tape is elastic, mimics the skin, and moves as you move. This is why it’s great for bringing support to weak muscles without restricting mobility. Some of the morepopular running injuries that benefit from kinesiology taping are Achilles tendinitis and runner’s knee.
Improve your Patient’s Blood and Fluid Circulation
By lifting the skin of a swollen area, kinesiology tape helps improve fluid circulation. By creating space under the skin, it boosts the flow of lymphatic fluid in the body aiding lymphatic drainage.
In fact, for bruising and swelling, a fan strip is incorporated into the taping protocol to take care of the affected area. You can check out some of our taping protocols on how to tape different areas of the body.
Prevent Joint Irritation
Kinesiology tape has been proven to help in creating spaces between joints that can help prevent pain and irritation.
So, patients that are always on their feet or spend a lot of time running from one place to another, can especially benefit from taping. Their knees will definitely thank you!
Improve your Patients’ Posture
Kinesiology tape can be used to improve posture. Better alignment of the body reduces strain on your patients’ spine and joints, improving both comfort and mobility.
Additionally, the kin tape can help cue your patients’ muscles to stay in the right posture instead of reverting back to their old position.
For example, if your patient has a nasty habit of slouching and it’s affecting his/her movement, you can turn to kinesiology taping to address it! We actually made an article aboutshoulder impingement and how to improve posture, Check it out!
Treat Swelling and Inflammation
Kin tape works by lifting the skin to increase blood flow and facilitate lymphatic drainage. This helps muscles work efficiently with less effort because more oxygen flowing through the body allows for better athletic performance. Test it out for yourself!
You can evencheck out our article on bruise taping to see some sample protocols that you can incorporate into your treatment plan for bruising. You can also see some before and after photos of bruising with kinesiology tape.
Helps in Patient Recovery
Since kinesiology tape reduces swelling and inflammation, it also speeds up the body's natural healing process. While kinesiology tape does not cure the underlying cause of pain or injury, it can help you get back to your normal activities faster. Speed up the recovery and get your patient back in the game!
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Conclusion
Since kinesiology tape has been created, it has increasingly become more popular amongst the regular population - not just among physical therapists and chiropractors. It can be virtually seen everywhere from elite athletes sporting these tapes in events or races to regular folks who are on the grind from day today.
With the benefits that this non-invasive, inexpensive, convenient tool brings, perhaps it’s high time for you to start incorporating it more and more into your treatment plans!
Happy taping!
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