Kinesio Taping Can Help with Sports Injuries
Do you have an injury or condition that is limiting your everyday life? Your daily routines can become difficult or impossible due to debilitating pain. Find relief with Kinesio taping!
Our Progressive Medical Fitness physical therapy team is here to offer you the treatments that will help alleviate pain, improve strength and your range of motion, enhance natural healing, and most importantly, restore your normal, daily activities.
Physical therapy and Kinesio taping
Kinesio taping has helped restore comfortable daily life for many of our patients – and without lingering pain or stiffness.
Our Progressive Medical Fitness physical therapy team will provide the highest level of Kinesio treatments to help you reach your goals.
During your initial appointment, your Progressive Medical Fitness physical therapist will conduct a thorough assessment. The information they gather will determine whether Kinesio taping will be included in your personalized treatment plan.
Your physical therapist will explain the benefits of Kinesio taping and detail each step of the process you will take part in.
Benefits of Kinesio taping
Our Northport, NY physical therapy team will create a personalized treatment plan that incorporates a variety of exercises and modalities to address your specific condition.
Kinesio taping is one of the treatment modalities we offer that improves your mobility and leads to increased support of your muscles, joints, and tendons.
Our physical therapy team treats the affected areas through placing the strips of tape on your body, as well as any other areas where you may be experiencing pain or stiffness.
If you would like to investigate the benefits Kinesio taping holds for your condition, request an appointment at Progressive Medical Fitness today!
Kinesio taping facts
Effective Kinesio taping does a few important things for your body.
It corrects improper interaction between the skin and the underlying soft tissue by resetting the circuitry in the affected area of your body. Muscle strength and activity is improved through this improved interaction between skin and muscle.
It also impedes pain messengers being transmitted to your brain. Spasms significantly decreases when the tension in the muscles of the affected area eases due to the pain messages not being received.
Pain causes tension of the affected area. When the pain messengers are not transmitted, suddenly the area eases, allowing for increased blood flow and freedom of movement.
Advantages of Kinesio taping
Kinesio taping will effectively start you on the path of your healing journey.
Some of these include:
Relieving pain
Pain relief is one of the key benefits of Kinesio taping. Your brain doesn’t receive the painful messages from the affected area because the pain receptors are blocked, the muscles relax as a result. Relaxed muscles allow for improved mobility, quicker healing, and a more comfortable overall treatment process.
Decreasing swelling
Swelling can be caused by injury, surgery, or even overuse of a certain part of your body. Kinesio taping helps to lessen swelling by decreasing the pressure between the skin and the underlying tissues. Fluids are thereby able to travel freely. The entire affected area is free to move more easily.
Managing scar tissue
After injury, a surgical procedure, or another trauma has occurred, it is common for scar tissue to form. The healing process can cause a thick band of scar tissue to form around the affected area, which may not allow for freedom of movement. Kinesio taping can improve your mobility by stretching the scar tissue, which allows better communication between the signals of movement.
Stabilizing joints
Certain conditions may cause joints to slip out of place more easily. Kinesio taping can help provide support, thereby stabilizing these joints. While the taping still allows the joint its full range of motion.
Relieve your pain today!
Contact our Northport, NY physical therapy team today, and let us help you on your path toward recovery!
Our Progressive Medical Fitness team is dedicated to helping you achieve your optimal physical performance – we would love to meet with you, and together, create a plan to achieve it.