Our office have been able to utilize the benefits of Kinesio Taping for the past several months. This has been an awesome modality to utilize with our current rehabilitative techinques. I have currently submitted my exam to become a Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner. I will be one of four Doctors of Chiropratic in the state of Kansas with this distinction.
Kinesio Taping is a techinque of applying kinesio tape (thin, elastic, colored, strips of stretchable tape) on joints and muscles where stability and support is needed. It is a non-restrictive taping method, opposite of white athletic tape, used to reduce pain and inflammation, relax overused, tired muscles, and speed healing.
HOW IT WORKS!
When properly applied, you don't even know the tape is there. The practitioner places it on lightly stretched skin from one end of a muscle, joint, or tendon to the other. For muscle support or facilitation, the tape is applied from muscle origin to muscle insertion. For rehabilitation or muscle inhibition, the tape goes on in the opposite direction.
The taping techinque is based on the body's own natural healing process. Rather than strap down the muscle, the philosophy is to give free range of motion and allow the body's own muscular system to heal itself. Application of kinesio tape encourages muscle to function as they would if they did not need the tape. This in turns, not only improves body movement, but circulation of venous and lymph flow, body circulation, etc.
CONDITIONS TREATED
Kinesio taping is effective in relieving carpal tunnel symptoms, arthritis, plantar fascitis, and shoulder pain. Other conditions that have been treated with Kinesio taping are: TMJ syndrome, headaches, flat feet, low back conditions (disc problems, sprain/strain, sciatica, etc), Post ACL rehabilitation, hamstring and hip flexor strains, shin splints, patellar tendonitis, grinding of the knees, posterior knee pain, rotator cuff syndrome, cervical sprain/strain, whiplash, tennis elbow and trapezius tightness to name a few!
If you would like more information regarding the kinesio taping, please call our office. If other Healthcare Professionals would like to refer patients for the Kinesio Taping services only, our office will accomodate your patients for those services!!
In Health,
Dr. Brandon Trost
Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Fredrick B. Wilcox
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