Strapping & Taping

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Sports & Injury Strapping

The principles behind Injury Strapping & Sports Taping is to provide extra support to injured or vulnerable areas of the body, enabling athletes to continue performing with minimum pain or discomfort. By applying adhesive tape and bandages to secure joints, ligaments, and muscles in specific positions, helps prevent movement and reduces stress on weakened areas.
Additionally, this approach serves as an effective tool for rehabilitating injuries during their acute recovery phase.

Kinesiology Taping

Kinesiology tape, also known as Kinesio tape or K tape, is a thin, flexible, and elastic tape that is non-medicated and latex-free – making it friendly on the skin! Its purpose is to offer support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting range of motion. Additionally, it aims to reduce pain and discomfort, while facilitating a healing response and aids with recovery from injury. Kinesiology tape can be used to enhance healing processes, by increasing lymphatic drainage and blood flow, therefore reducing inflammation, swelling, and bruising. When applied correctly it should last multiple days and withstand athletic activity and showering without coming off. 

Kinesiology Taping FAQ’s

Kinesiology tape works by lifting the skin and fascia (connective tissue), which decompresses the area, reducing pressure on pain receptors, and enhancing circulation. This is thought to boost the body’s natural healing process by improving blood flow and lymphatic drainage. Consequently, it facilitates removal of waste products and promotes the efficient transport of white blood cells carrying oxygen and nutrients to the injured soft tissue, aiding in the recovery process, and improving healing times.

When soft tissues and joints are injured, the body’s natural reaction is to produce inflammation, swelling and bruising. This build-up of lymphatic fluid causes an increased pressure on receptors and nerve endings within muscles and soft tissues which can cause pain and discomfort. As it’s believed kinesiology tape decompresses the area and allows for greater movement of lymphatic fluid which removes waste product and cellular debris. This is why healing times are reported to be improved.

Kinesiology tape works by ‘disrupting’ the transmission of pain signals from the injured tissues to the spinal cord and brain, which means you can feel less pain and discomfort. Many people believe kinesiology tape is an ‘instant fix’, when in fact it just helps to change how your body interprets pain, turning down the pain ‘volume’. Have you ever wondered why ‘rubbing something better’ works? This is because we overload the brain with sensory information, which prevents pain signals from being appropriately perceived.

Kinesiology tape is believed to have a microscopic lifting effect beneath the skin and among the various myofascial layers, facilitating the faster and more efficient removal of inflammation by-products. Consequently, this helps alleviate the symptoms of inflammation, swelling and discomfort.

Research suggests that kinesiology tape can help reduce muscle fatigue by providing support to tired muscles, potentially enhancing their endurance and performance. This is particularly important in rehabilitation, as it not only benefits the targeted area but also aids surrounding muscles that may be functioning suboptimally.

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