Kinesiology Taping
This modern modality has recently exploded onto the physiotherapy and sports therapy scene with increasing popularity. Kinesiology tape provides support for muscles, can reduce pain, reduce bruising and inflammation, reduce pressure on joints, enhance performance and aid the treatment and rehabilitation process. It is applied along soft tissue structures like muscles, tendons and ligaments which provides a light and comfortable support allowing you to remain active whilst recovering from pain or injury.
Kinesiology tape is comfortable to wear, lightweight, and its versatility means it can be used for hundreds of injuries and pathologies such as tennis elbow, shin splints, lower back pain, muscle pain, knee pain, rotator cuff injuries and many more. Kinesiology tape is also extremely durable and can be worn for days, whilst swimming or showering and will last until you need to take it off, usually for treatment or re-application.
BST can provide kinesiology taping as part of a longer term treatment plan or as a one off application if you just want to try it out.
This is a method of taping used to maintain a stable joint position and is usually used upon a return to activity or sport after an injury which may have weakened a specific joint or area. It provides external support of bones, joints and muscles during activity. It reduces pressure through most anatomical structures once applied and can in turn reduce pain through the area to which it is applied.
Most athletic taping techniques restrict joints that are injured in order to avoid re-injury or making existing injuries worse. For example after someone has ‘rolled their ankle’ meaning they have forcefully over-stretched and injured the soft tissue on the outside of their ankle, athletic taping is applied to restrict the ankle so that the joint cannot move in a way to stretch the already injured tissue.
BST can provide athletic taping as part of a longer term treatment plan or as a one off application if you just want to try it out.
Athletic Taping
