kinesio tape uses in physiotherapy

1. Dr. Mohabbat Ali
COORDINATOR SRC, AKUH

2. Objectives
 History of taping
 Founder of Medical Taping
 How taping used in medical practice

3. History of tape
Duct tape was invented in
Greece in about 400B.C.
by a guy named Socrates Duct
Socrates Duct

4. HISTORY OF TAPING
1750
First patent for an
adhesive issued
in Britain for a fish-
based glue
1845
Horace Day, a surgeon,
uses a rubber adhesive
applied to
strips of fabric to make
a new invention
1920
Earle Dickson, a
cotton buyer for
Johnson and Johnson,
invents the Band-Aid.
Surgical bandages

5. RICHARD DREW (1899-1980)
 First masking tape (1925) in 3M
 Improved masking tape in to
Scotch (TM) Brand Cellulose Tape
(1930)
 His tape was helped along by the first
tape dispenser (1935).
• First medical tape manufactured in
1942 by the J & J
• Brand Magic (TM) Transparent Tape
(1961)

6. Medical Taping
Taping method has taken the rehabilitation
and sport medicine word by storm
What does Storm means?
An exacerbation of symptoms or a crisis in the
course of a disease

7. Founder of Medical Taping
Dr. Kenzo Kase

8. Idea of taping
 Movement and muscle activity are
essential in maintaining and
recovering health. The idea behind
this was that muscles are not only
attributed to the movements of the
body but also control for instance
blood and lymph circulation and
body temperature. If the muscles do
not function properly, it can cause a
range of symptoms and complaints

9. First Decade
 For the first decade after its introduction,
orthopedists, chiropractors, acupuncturists
and other medical practitioners in Japan
were the main users of the therapeutic tape.
 During the second decade after its
introduction the tape was adopted by
Japanese Olympic and professional athletes.

10. Taping in volleyball
Began taping volleyball
players in the 1980’s
Use spread to other
Asian countries and
Europe
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11. Kinesio Taping Association
International (KTAI)
 Established Japanese
National Kinesio Taping
Association in 1984

12. Taping in Olympics
Used by Japanese National
Volleyball Association in
1988 Olympics

13. History of medical taping
 Mid of 1990 when the kinesio taping method was
introduced into the U,S the kinesio taping
association has attracted over 18,000 website
registered practitioners from PT’s, OT’s, DC’s,
ATC’s, MD’s, and more recently LMT’s, all have
recognized and embraced this effective, safe and
ease to use modality.

14. National Athletic Trainers
Association
 Appeared in the US
through National Athletic
Trainers Association in 1995

15. Tape in use in physical therapy
Began use by physical
therapists in 1997

16. Seminars on taping
 In 1998, Neuromuscular Taping techniques were launched
in Northern Europe and in Southern Europe by the Dutch
firm Fysiotape NL and the Portuguese firm Aneid
Produtos Farmacêuticos, Lda respectively.
 The first Neuromuscular Taping seminar for
physiotherapists in Europe was conducted in Portugal by
Dr. Kenzo Kase in 1998 and was jointly sponsored by Aneid
Lda and Fysiotape NL.
 In the United Kingdom, Aneid UK Ltd will introduce the
Medical Taping Concept with the launch of Cure Tape.

17. Approval of taping
Approval of Medicare billing code for taping
in 2001

18. FIFA Word Cup & Olympics games
 Break through events were
the Olympic Games 2000 in
Sydney as well as the FIFA
World Cup 2002 in Korea
Japan

19. John Langendoen
 Dutch orthopaedic manipulative
physiotherapist John Langendoen,
was introduced to elastic tape
while working for the Korea
national football Team at the FIFA
World Cup 2002 in Korea / Japan
and who had been applying rigid
non-elastic tape according Jenny
McConnell for years

20. FIFA Word Cup & Olympics games
FIFA World Cup 2006 that he
together with a group of
colleagues and medical doctors
developed a concept of
applying elastic tape -
Kinematic Taping

21. Kinesio Tape at the 2008
Beijing Olympics
 Comparable to the assessment and
management of neural tissue in the 80s
and the development of evidence based
stability models and motor control in
the 90s, this 1st decade of the 3rd
millennium in neuro-musculoskeletal
physiotherapy is increasingly dominated
by the issues of elastic taping.

22. Thank you