Background Ankle sprain is the most commonly diagnosed injury experienced by ballet dancers. Traditional taping and bracing affect function by restricting range of motion but are aesthetically ...

Leg adorned with criss-cross patterns of brightly coloured tape are now a common sight at the start line of races these days, and though the psychological benefit of having that niggle taped before ...

Dear Colin: My physical therapist swears by "kinesio-taping" to help with joint pain. He says he uses it on just about all his patients with knee and shoulder problems because it really makes joints ...

Over the past decade there has been a global spread of a dinky, brightly-coloured product, strips of which are often seen adhering to the skin of runners, footballers and others. Kinesio Tape first ...

LONDON – The lineage of the mysterious tape strips used by Olympic athletes to guard against injury goes back to an old Japanese technique devised to assist sumo wrestlers. Kinesio tape – an ...

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 ...

In 1979, a Japanese chiropractor, Dr. Kenzo Kase, made news by developing a system of taping injured bodies with what has become known as Kinesiology. Kase s light and flexible tape adheres to the ...

3 Integrative Sports Science Research Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, South 4 Frontier Research Institute of Convergence Sports Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, South 5 Yonsei ...

LONDON – The lineage of the mysterious tape strips used by Olympic athletes to guard against injury goes back to an old Japanese technique devised to assist sumo wrestlers. Kinesio tape – an ...