How Kinesiology Tape Helps Musculoskeletal?

If you have been in the rehabilitation department, orthopedics department of the hospital, or major sports venues or road running sites recently, you will definitely see many people wearing colorful tapes on their bodies. This kind of tape is called kinesiology tape. In addition to having Beautiful effect, and can achieve the following three effects for different parts and different sticking methods:

1. For muscles: promote muscle performance, relax tight muscles and stimulate skin muscles to relieve pain, etc.

2. For bones: limit joint activities, help correct posture and improve bad movement patterns, etc.

3. For circulation: reduce edema and lymphatic drainage.

Seeing this, you must start to wonder what the principle of the tape is? There are three principles of kinesiology tape, as follows:

First [Principles of Sewers]

When the kinesiology tape is put on, it can lift the skin and increase the space between the skin and the muscles. The larger the space in the sewer, the smoother our body fluids can be, and the ability to metabolize waste and bring nutrients is of course better.

Second [Seesaw Principle]

We use the rebound force generated by the tape when we stretch the kinesiology tape to act on the muscles to assist the muscles to exert force or relax. Why can they help the muscles to exert force and relax the muscles? It depends on the direction in which we stick the tape. When the tape rebounds When the direction of the tape is the same as the direction of muscle contraction, it can help the force, and we call it "promoting"; when the tape rebounds in the opposite direction to the direction of muscle contraction, it can help the muscle relax, which we call "inhibition".

The third [Gate Valve Control Theory]

When we fell and hurt when we were young, my mother helped us to exhale and it didn't seem so painful. Why? Because there is a kind of small neuron (red in the picture above) in the human body that is specialized in transmitting pain, and there is another kind of thick neuron (Blue in the picture above) is used to transmit sensations other than pain. Small neurons transmit slowly, and large neurons transmit faster. Therefore, when we feel pain, we quickly input sensations other than pain, because large neurons transmit more quickly. Yuan’s information is transmitted faster, and the sense of touch or pressure seems to go to the brain first, closing the door of the brain’s senses, preventing the pain from running in again. This is the so-called door valve pain relief theory, and kinesiology tape can also achieve this effect.

As mentioned above, different sticking methods for different parts have different functions. The common shapes are I-shaped, Y-shaped, X-shaped, claw-shaped, etc. Of course, you can also be creative and invent your own.

What I want to introduce to you today is the X-type sticking method, which is what we call pain point improvement tape. According to my own experience, when you encounter problems and do not know how to stick, this sticking method can be said to be the last secret weapon. , This sticking method makes use of our aforementioned "sewer principle" and "gate valve control theory". When there are obvious pain points in the part we want to stick, this sticking method can help us to greatly promote circulation and metabolism in the sewer of the pain point, and also The tactile sensation given by the tape can be applied to the thick neurons to achieve analgesic effect.

The steps of the X-type sticking method are as follows:

1. First take a piece of tape of the appropriate length.

2. Cut the tape on both sides and trim the edges.

3. The middle is attached to the painful part without applying tension.

4. Give the four sides a little tension and stick them in all directions.

5. Done.

The above is the introduction about how kinesiology tape can help musculoskeletal muscles. If you want to know more about kinesiology tape, you can click the link below and contact us online.

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