You've probably seen it before: pro runners lining up on the start line with strips of athletic tape around their knees, ankles, or up and down their calves and thighs. This tape serves an important ...

The answer is simple. Footballers mainly tape their wrists to protect them from injury. Sports tape, which is wrapped around the wrist and sometimes fingers, provides support and stability to the ...

Created by chiropractor Kenso Kase, DC, in the 1970s, kinesiology tape is a cotton-based tape used for performance and rehabilitation purposes, according to the International Journal of Sports ...

Introduction In recent years, Kinesio tape has been used to support injured muscle and joints, and relieve pain. We compared the pain and disability in individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain ...

After Steelers linebacker James Harrison complained that he wasn’t allowed to tape his recent drug test, the NFL explained that it bans players from taping tests in order to maintain the integrity of ...

Taping is recommended for, among other things, foot discomfort, bunions, weak ankles, sore shins, strained or cramping calf muscles, quadriceps and hamstrings that pull easily, shoulder pain ...