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For
more than 25 years, Kinesio Taping has been breaking new ground in the
fields of sports performance, pain management and physical therapy. The
Kinesio Taping Method is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing
process while allowing support and stability to muscles and joints without
restricting the body’s range of motion. It is used to successfully treat a
variety of orthopedic, neuromuscular, neurological and medical conditions,
incl. lymphedema. Both Kinesio® Tex Tape and the training protocol have shown
results that would have been unheard of using older methods and materials. In
the mid-1970s, Dr. Kenzo Kase was already a well-known Japanese practitioner
licensed in chiropractic and acupuncture. He developed the tape, which has a
texture and elasticity very close to living human skin, in response to
limitations he encountered working with rigid sports taping methods on his own
patients. Dr.
Kase was experienced with both Japanese and US norms for patient treatment. He
began to have questions about the limitations of the Western medical mindset.
He heard of a cryotherapy treatment for arthritis that utilized tape to adjust
joint distortion. In Western medicine the presumption had been that once
a joint is in a certain shape that cannot be changed. He was intrigued by the
possibilities that this treatment could remediate the distortion. He
developed the tape, which has a texture and elasticity very close to living
human tissue, in response to limitations he encountered working with rigid
sports taping methods on his own patients. To
develop such a modality, he ordered supplies of the different athletic tapes
that were available at that time. None of them gave him the results he was
looking for. By trial and error, he realized that the source of the complaint
was actually in the muscle, not in the joint or in the bone. To stabilize the
joint he saw that it was more effective to tape around the muscle to achieve
joint correction. The tapes that he was able to obtain were rigid, designed to
immobilize the joint. In cases
of injury or overuse, the muscle loses its elasticity. Dr. Kase needed to
develop a tape that would have the same elasticity as healthy human muscle. He
knew from his practice that the tape would also need to stay on the skin where
it was applied. He spent two years doing a lot of research relating to
elasticity, adhesives and breathability. Finally,
he came up with a tape that possessed the proper degree of elasticity, and that
lifts the skin microscopically. From that beginning, Kinesio® Tex Tape was
invented. Its unique properties were based on a study of kinesiology. Kinesio®
Tex Tape is used to
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