Andrew Graham Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I wanted to ask the members of the forum what their thoughts were on Kinesio taping. We all saw a multitude of K-taping being used in the olympics and i was wondering if anyone has had any first hand experience with it?? As a training sports therapist it is another therpay tool to use 'quiver' but there is alot of controversy to whether it actually does anything useful and whether it speeds up healing??. There are other types of tape that can be used by physios or therapist e.g nitric zinc oxide tape which can be used for in game injuries and allow the player to go backon the field with abit of compression and stability. Personally i feel that if he has injured himself enough to warrant all that stability and compression taping he shouldn't be playing. It would be good to have some external input and wisdom from the members on here Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Sjolin Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I don't know about healing, but I used it for a couple erg tests on my knees (they've been really messed up for a while), and they took away a lot of the pain that would have been there otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim Nagler Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I was going to ask this a few days ago I've been using it for my forearm for the past week and it didn't really help. But they advise everywhere that you have to use them the right way but i didn't find any guidance for forearms so i taped it intuitively. Maybe that was just wrong. I think it might be useful for something like elbows and stuff but i dont really know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Naterman Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Intuitive may have been wrong. Typically, you put kinesio tape on in the neutral joint position (nearly full elbow extension for the elbow joint) with the tape stretched to 1/3 of maximal stretch. There are sometimes more specific applications for specific conditions, but this is the norm.... more or less. Kinesio tape is primarily a tool for motor re-education, as it provides a kind of passive proprioception that allows you to learn to recruit your muscles more effectively, and, over time, to permanently change your recruitment patterns. It can take months to do this, but it apparently works pretty well. I am going to be experimenting with this at home, I have the clinical manual somewhere and a few rolls that I've never opened. And friends who know enough for me to teach proper application to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Graham Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Josh, i was hoping you would reply to this thread .......You blow my mind man...You blow my mind!! It's just amazing how you have an in-depth knowledge about almost everything! The site should change your category from 'moderator' to 'God' !! Thanks for your time and input man! a pleasure as always. P.S how much would it cost to get you over to the UK to teach sports injury and physiology on my sports therapy course?? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Scheelings Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I haven't used it a lot, but going to be learning a bit more about it next week. To be honest tho some of the theory doesn't make sense to me physiologically, and some of the claims about it sound crazy. I mean if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. That being said I think the proprioception type application is probably useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik de Kort Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Josh, i was hoping you would reply to this thread .......You blow my mind man...You blow my mind!! It's just amazing how you have an in-depth knowledge about almost everything! The site should change your category from 'moderator' to 'God' !! Thanks for your time and input man! a pleasure as always. P.S how much would it cost to get you over to the UK to teach sports injury and physiology on my sports therapy course?? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Sommer Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 On one occassion Allan used K tape for a few days during a national team training camp at the US Olympic Training Center for a severe bruise on his calf. It was quite helpful. Yours in Fitness,Coach Sommer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Naterman Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 On one occassion Allan used K tape for a few days during a national team training camp at the US Olympic Training Center for a severe bruise on his calf. It was quite helpful. Yours in Fitness,Coach Sommer That is good to know! I have heard that it could be used to help open the lymphatic channels, did you find that it helped the bruise heal faster or was it just rendered less painful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Naterman Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Josh, i was hoping you would reply to this thread .......You blow my mind man...You blow my mind!! It's just amazing how you have an in-depth knowledge about almost everything! The site should change your category from 'moderator' to 'God' !! Thanks for your time and input man! a pleasure as always. P.S how much would it cost to get you over to the UK to teach sports injury and physiology on my sports therapy course?? CheersHahaha, talk to your university I am definitely not a God, but I have a huge passion for all of this and I just... read everything and then try stuff out, and always try to learn WHY things work, which has led me down a huge number of side streets filled with information This forum has helped me immensely, I mean the constant discussions we have keep me reading a lot more than I would on my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Sommer Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 ... I am definitely not a God ... I can personally vouch for this. Yours in Fitness,Coach Sommer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Naterman Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I can personally vouch for this. Yours in Fitness,Coach SommerHAHAHA! Indeed Perhaps one day I may develop an unearthly glow, but I'd be a lot quicker to implicate spray tan or radiation poisoning than sudden divinity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik de Kort Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Josh, i was hoping you would reply to this thread .......You blow my mind man...You blow my mind!! It's just amazing how you have an in-depth knowledge about almost everything! The site should change your category from 'moderator' to 'God' !! If you'd ask Joshua about the automorphism group of the symmetry group of a regular polyhedron and it's relation to centralizers and normalizers of subgroups of that symmetry group, and how that relationship generalizes to general groups, I think he wouldn't know what you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Naterman Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 If you'd ask Joshua about the automorphism group of the symmetry group of a regular polyhedron and it's relation to centralizers and normalizers of subgroups of that symmetry group, and how that relationship generalizes to general groups, I think he wouldn't know what you're talking about. I just got dizzy and vomited... what just happened?!?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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