Targeted support to help relieve pain, promote healing, improve mobility, and help you return to everyday life more comfortably.
When pain, stiffness, injury, surgery, or overuse affects everyday life, Kinesio Taping may be part of a plan to help you move more comfortably. This modality is used to improve mobility and provide support to muscles, joints, and tendons while allowing movement through the intended range of motion.
At Cutting Edge Physical Therapy, Kinesio Taping is used as one component of an individualized treatment plan. Your physical therapist will evaluate your needs and determine whether it is an effective option for your recovery.
Kinesio Taping can be used to address several common challenges that affect comfortable movement.
One of the biggest benefits of Kinesio Taping is pain relief. By blocking pain receptors, the brain does not receive the same painful messages from the affected area, allowing muscles to relax and supporting more comfortable mobility.
Injury, surgery, and overuse can result in swelling. Kinesio Taping helps decrease swelling by limiting pressure between the skin and underlying tissues, allowing fluid buildup to travel more freely and promoting easier movement.
Some conditions can make it difficult for joints to stay in place. Kinesio Taping can help provide stability and support while still allowing the joint to move through its intended range of motion.
After injury, surgery, or trauma, a thick band of scar tissue can inhibit movement signals. Kinesio Taping can provide a needed stretch to scar tissue, making movement signals easier to communicate and helping improve mobility.
Your physical therapist will place strips of tape on the affected area and may also apply tape to other areas where you are experiencing pain or stiffness. The approach is selected around your specific needs, symptoms, and movement goals.
Kinesio Taping is one of a variety of exercises and modalities our physical therapists may implement in a treatment plan. At your initial appointment, your therapist will conduct a thorough evaluation, determine whether taping is appropriate, and explain how it may support your journey toward recovery.
Kinesio Taping works by helping reset circuitry in an affected area, correcting faulty interactions between the skin and the muscles, joints, and tendons underneath. This can result in improved muscle strength and activity.
When pain messages are reduced, muscles in the affected area can loosen and the likelihood of spasms can decrease. Reducing pain can create more freedom for blood flow and movement.
Kinesio Taping has helped many patients return to their daily lives with less lingering pain and stiffness. Our therapists are dedicated to helping you reach your peak physical performance with a plan built around you.