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  • Epstein Underwood posted an update 4 years, 3 months ago

    So many of us have seen and associated with Functional Tape. Maybe the wondering whether this is an activity worth putting in your practice. Or maybe, to be able to kind of implemented it into your practice, an individual dont know exactly why you are doing it or why it helps. You didnt want to miss the functional Tape Craze, so you implemented it, unsure within the actual effects.

    Lets look at the actual benefits, and the theories explaining why Functional Tape works. Kenzo Kase, the inventor of Kinesio Tape, explains the benefits with the utilization of Functional Tape below.

    5 Benefits of Functional Tape (Kase, 1996)

    1) To provide a positional stimulus through skin this makes sure that the tape actually helps facilitate proprioception of compromised tissues. For patients lacking proprioception and demonstrating dysfunction, you can help them achieve local improvement of dysfunction.

    2) To align fascial tissues by aligning fascial tissues, it assists inside correction of chronic postural distortion layouts. At the American Posture Institute we utilize Functional Tape for the specific purpose of
    posture habit re-education to re-educate poor postural habits and improve postural design.

    3) Improved circulation by lifting fascia and soft tissue above area of pain or inflammation this is one good reason that Functional Tape is so good at therapeutic relief of chronically injured or compromised tissues. By lifting the tissue layer of the skin, there is increased circulation on the compromised tissue to initiate the healing process.

    4) To provide sensory stimulation to help or limit motion this provides validation for the using of Functional Tape for performance benefits. The tape assists in achieving proper motion and has shown to improve muscle explosive power for high-level athletes. Depending upon the amount of tape tension utilized during the application, the tape can facilitate muscle activation or inhibit muscle spasm.

    5) To help out with the removal of edema by directing exudates toward lymph ducts this is incredibly beneficial for patients who present with post-surgical lymphedema, the tape assists in drainage. This involving taping protocol one other beneficial for patients who present with acute edema and bruising.

    Since Kase (1996) released his research showing the advantages of Functional Tape, the researchers have also studied the influences. According to Huang et al. (2011) the beneficial effects of Functional Tape include physical corrections, fascia relaxation, space recuperation, ligament and tendon support, movement rectification and lymphatic fluid circulation.

    2 Theories Explaining Why Functional Tape is Effective:

    The first of these two main theories proposed to explain the reported functional associated with Functional Tape, means the lifting effect allowing increased blood and lymph circulation. Increased blood and lymphatic fluid circulation regarding taped area because of a lifting effect makes a wider space between skin and the muscles and interstitial space (Halseth et ., 2004). The improved circulation initiates the healing effect necessary to further improve chronically compromised damaged tissues.

    An additional theory is that Functional Tape may apply pressure or continual stretching of pores and skin within the taped area. This external activation of cutaneous mechanoreceptors activates modulatory mechanisms within the central nervous system demonstrated as a rise in muscle excitability and proprioception (Gomez-Soriano, 2013). By increasing muscle excitation and proprioception, there is evidence supporting the using of Functional Tape for performance-based objectives, not just therapeutic.

    Have you thought of implementing Functional Tape into your practice? By adding this additional modality to your clinical tool belt, you are providing patients with further healing effects that they will not have achieved any other indicates. Or perhaps you can simulate the same effects, but it requires up more of your respective as a busy practitioner.

    Functional Tape is not just a craze, from the system of functional correction for your patients.