What are these bands of colours that elite sportsmen and women have been wearing lately? It is a new neuromuscular bandage called "kinesio taping".

 

Articles

Domingo García P. La utilización de kinesio taping en los tratamientos de fisioterapia. Boletín informativo de la AETB 2006(17):33-36.

Fu T, Wong AMK, Pei Y, Wu KP, Chou S, Lin Y. Effect of kinesio taping on muscle strength in athletes: a pilot study. J Sci Med Sport 2008;11(2):198-201.

García-Muro F, Rodríguez-Fernández ÁL, Herrero-de-Lucas Á. Treatment of myofascial pain in the shoulder with Kinesio taping: a case report. Man Ther 2009.

González-Iglesias J, Fernández-De-Las-Peñas C, Cleland J, Huijbregts P, Gutiérrez-Vega MdR. Short-term effects of cervical kinesio taping on pain and cervical range of motion in patients with acute whiplash injury: a randomized clinical trial. JOSPT 2009;39(7):515-521.

Halseth T, McChesney JW, DeBeliso M, Vaughn R, Lien J. The effects of kinesio taping on proprioception at the ankle. Journal of sports science and medicine 2004;3(1):1-7.

Hinman RS, Bennell KL, Croosley KM, McConnell J. Immediate effects of adhesive tape on pain and disability in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Rheumatology 2003;42(7):865-869.

Jaraczewska E, Long C. Kinesio taping in stroke: improving functional use of the upper extremity in hemiplegia. Top. Stroke Rehabil. 2006;13(3):31-42.

Kahanov L. Kinesio taping: an overview of use with athletes, part II. Athletic Therapy Today 2007;12(4):5-7.

Kahanov L. Kinesio taping, part 1: an overview of its use in athletes. Athl. Ther. Today 2007;12(3):17-18.

Salvat Salvat I, Alonso Salvat A. Efectos inmediatos del kinesio taping en la flexión lumbar. Fisioterapia 2010; 32 (2): 57-65.

Sliwinski H, Kufel M. The effect of Kinesio Taping applications on motor activity in children with developmental defects. Fizjoterapia Polska 2007;7(1):52-62.

Thelen MD, Dauber JA, Stoneman PD. The clinical efficacy of kinesio tape for shoulder pain: a randomized, double-blinded, clinical trial. JOSPT 2008;38(7):389-395.

Yoshida K. The effect of kinesio taping on lower trunk range of motions. Res. Sports Med. 2007;15(2):103-112.

 

Books

Aguirre T, Achalandabaso M. Kinesiology tape manual: aplicaciones prácticas. San Sebastián: Biocorp; 2009.

Kase K, Stockheimer KR. Kinesio taping for lymphoedema and chronic swelling. Alburquerque, NM: Kinesio USA; 2006.

Kase K, Wallis J, Kase T. Clinical therapeutic applications of the kinesio tapìng method . 2nd ed. Alburquerque, NM: Kinesio Taping Association; 2003.