Introduction In recent years, Kinesio tape has been used to support injured muscle and joints, and relieve pain. We compared the pain and disability in individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain ...

Kinesio taping is a therapeutic modality that utilises an elastic adhesive tape applied to the skin to support muscles and joints, alleviate pain, and enhance functional recovery. Although originally ...

Sports injuries are as much a part of the Olympic Games as gold medals and doping allegations. And when pain strikes, many athletes in London turn to a conspicuous crutch: Kinesio, a soft and stretchy ...

The days of white athletic tape have, it seems, spooled to an end, making way for a new era marked by color and distinctive shapes. Call it the era of kinesiology therapeutic sports tape. Whether name ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Relieving the aches and pains of working out is a challenge for anyone who exercises. This applies to not only to weekend warriors, but professional athletes as well. More athletes are ...

If you see professional athletes or weekend warriors with a crazy crosshatch of tape on their shoulders, knees or elbows, they probably aren’t making a fashion statement. Chances are they’re trying to ...

German beach volleyball player Ilka Semmler wears it on her buttocks - in pink. Swedish handball player Johanna Wiberg prefers it in blue from her knee to her groin. British sprinter Dwain Chambers ...

Ever wondered what the bright-coloured strips of tape in odd patterns increasingly being seen on professional and recreational athletes are all about? At this point, it would be hard to find a part of ...