Kinesiology Taping Guide Effects of Kinesiotape on Lower Limbs

By Samantha Myer

The KinesioTaping Method is felt to cause physiological effects on several body systems. The systems affected by the body are thought to include the circulatory/lymphatic, neural, muscular, and fascial systems, as well as the joints. Kinesio taping is currently being used by therapists to change muscle tone, move lymphatic fluids, correct movement patterns, and improve posture.

The findings indicated that Kinesiotaping can increase the range of motion of the knee and reduce spasticity. It also can improve functional mobility

• Language: English
• Publisher: vincenzo nappi
• Release date: Aug 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393920199

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INTRODUCTION

Kinesiotaping is a fairly new concept for most people, even though it has been founded in 1979 by a Japanese chiropractic Kenzo Kase. Their amount of studies done concerning kinesiotape seems to be raising all the time, but so far there is not that much evidence-based data to back up the theories given as the effects of kinesiotape. The visibility of kinesiotape in media used by athletes is probably a big reason for its rising popularity. Kinesiotaping is also spreading all the time into health care providers around Finland as a growing treatment method as it can be used for a big variety of different sorts of