K tape knee

Placement is key when learning how to apply KT tape to throbbing knees, aching shoulders, shin splints, or anywhere else that's causing you grief.

Struggling with knee stability while working out? Try these two easy kinesiology taping methods for proper knee movement patterning and stability.

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It is now ubiquitous kit for any runner serious about their game – strips of coloured adhesive tape that adorn arms, legs, backs and even necks. It is called kinesiology tape, or K-tape.

On July 16, 2012 I set a goal for myself. I would run Disney's Princess Half Marathon in February 2013. But you don't go from an uncoordinated non-workout kind of girl to a runner that easily. I injured my IT Band / patella in December and was in physical therapy for weeks prior to the marathon. My therapist advised against the half-marathon. I was disappointed because I had been training so hard but with my therapist's permission I decided to still fly down to Orlando and run/walk the 5k…

Running knee issues and how taping can help relieve pain, provide stablity

Here’s a taping technique for patellar tendinosis (jumper’s knee) to help treat the pain. Full instructions and pictures from Physical Sports First Aid.

It was the summer Olympics that brought Kinesio tape (aka K-tape)—most famously worn by U.S. women's beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh during the 2008 Beijing Olympics—into the limelight. What were those bright, colorful stripes criss-crossing the athlete’s legs? Kinesio tape, although just recently popular, has been around for