User:Zizou12/sandbox kinesio tape

ADOPTION
Kinesio taping allows for the full range of motion of each joint, yet still supports that joint efficiently.

The company associated with Kinesio Tape, Kinesio USA, donated 50,000 rolls of various types of tape to 58 different countries to use at the Olympics in Beijeng.

Comparison to Other Tapes
White Athletic Tape the most common tape used in the United State. The tape is limiting and rigid - this is needed for its use - and requires pre-wrap, or thin gauze,application prior to the tape job to prevent irritation and cuts in the skin. Kinesio Tape is made of 100% cotton making its application breathable and it is flexible making it comfortable and able to wear for longer periods of time. Its elasticity is very similar to the elasticity of the skin and muscles of the human body. It is more light, hypo-allergenic, and latex-free which overall causes less skin irritations. The athletic white tape is used for limiting the joint while the injury is still healing. Also it is proved efficient and accepted by medical professionals across the globe. The Kinesio Tape is used more for rehabilitative uses and benefits and its effectiveness is still being tested.

Coming Out
The tape did not get recognize until the Beijing Olympics in 2008. They donated 50,000 rolls of tape for free use in the Olympics games. The recognition worked and since then the number of views of the company website has increased dramatically.Before the olympics, the number of views were at 600 a day. After the olympics, web traffic for the company website for Kinesio Tape rose to 345,00 views daily.

Yet other means of spreading the word of the new Kinesio Tape was mostly by word-of-mouth. If an athlete or trainer recommended it, it would spread slowly but surely. Sometimes spreading even faster if a more recognized athlete recommended it. Lance Armstrong reportedly dedicated one page in his book to Kinesio Tape. David Beckham, after the end of a game, traded jerseys and had pink Kinesio Tape wrapped on his back.

Evidence
In July of 2008, the Journl of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy conducted and published a study of 42 different people with shoulder injuries. 21 of these people were treated with Kinesio Tape and it was applied in the correct manner for support of the injured muscle. The other half were given what was called a "sham" treatment - two pieces of tape were placed across the arm. Physical therapists from Winn Army Community Hospital in Fort Stewart, Ga. conducted the study. There was no monitory value given to these physical therapist by the tape company. The results were that the patients who participated in the Kinesio Treatment said they had a more quick improvement in pain.

In 2007, Research in Sports Medicine printed a study by San Jose University that showed, in 30 normal and healthy testing subjects, the Kinesio placed in the lower trunk area seemed to increase range of motion.

ORIGINATED
Dr. Kase, the inventor of Kinesio Tape, was well experienced in the normal treatment for the US and Japanese. He heard of using tape in cryotherapy treatments for arthritis that would help correct the joint distortion. Before this, it was thought that once a joint took a certain shape it could not be rearranged. Dr. Kase became very interested that a certain type of taping could remediate the distorted joints of the body.

Development of the tape ended up becoming very elastic compared to the normal athletic tape used to limit joints. This tape, which was extremely similar to human tissue, limits joints but not to the point where the normal range of motion is blocked. Yet soon he realized that the problem in most patients was not in the joint but in the muscles around the joint. And in order to stabilize the joint he created tape that would support muscles and create blood flow.