Effects of Kinesio Taping on Performance

Texas A&M University San Antonio

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: Kinesio taping

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02840734

Tamusa

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigated the immediate effects of Kinesio taping on muscular power, strength, endurance, and lower limb fatigue when taping is applied to rectus femoris and around the patella of obese adults based on Kinesio taping techniques.

Full description

This is a randomized, double-blind, crossover, and clinical trial. Ethical approval was obtained from the University's Institutional Review Board (#2015-51). Participants were recruited by flyers posted on the University campus. Informed consent was completed by all participants prior to the study procedures. The subjects were obese college students. A total of 13 subjects, four males and nine females (mean age of 24.38 ± 3.01 years, mean percent body fat of 39.10 ± 6.91 % [male: 41.93 ± 7.47 %, female: 38.16 ± 6.91 %]), were enrolled this study. All subjects underwent three different trials which include no taping (NT), placebo taping (PT), and Kinesio taping (KT). All individuals were assessed for peak and mean power, muscular strength, endurance, and muscle fatigue after each condition.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• percent body fat of 25 % in males, 30 % in females or more

Exclusion criteria

• lower limb surgery within previous 6 months
• presence of any other lower limb joint diseases such as degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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13 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Kinesio taping

Experimental group

Description:

All subjects wore an eye mask and the taped leg was covered by clothes for preventing subjects and researchers from identifying different tapings due to double-blinding. Subjects layed down on the mat in a supine position with the hip flexed 30º and the knee flexed 60º. Y type tape was applied from a point 10 cm below the anterior superior iliac spine, bisected at the junction between quadriceps femoris tendon and the patella, ending at its inferior side. And another Y type tape was applied from the tibial tuberosity, bisected at the junction between patella tendon and the patella, ending at its superior side. The first 5 cm tape was not stretched and acted as the anchor. I type tapes were applied downward and inward to the superior and inferior meniscus of the patella respectively.

Treatment:

Other: Kinesio taping

Placebo taping

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Placebo tapes (3M tape) were applied with same method with Kinesio taping.

Treatment:

Other: Kinesio taping

No taping

No Intervention group

Description:

In case of the no taping condition, the subject was treated along the same procedure which was closed subject's eyes with eye mask and covered the legs with clothes although applied anything on their legs. It might be able to minimize the error, because the researchers did not realize which condition the subject had.