An athlete making an explosive movement puts extremely high loads through the contractile and non-contractile musculo-tendinous elements attached to their skeletal structure. The ensuing movement of their skeleton accelerate their trunk or limbs, which, during a change in direction, need to tolerate a rapid deceleration while maintaining appropriate balance, dynamic joint position and control, placing stress on capsules, ligaments and fascia.and this continues through out the duration of their event or training session. Once control becomes compromised due to fatigue, repetition, or a loss of focus, amongst a plethora of other factors, the control of movement or load may result in injuries that can range from minor to major, painless to painful, micro to macro. As long as motivation is still present, and the stakes are high enough, an athlete can choose to put their pain aside, and continue. 'It is not pain that finally stops them, elite athletes are often able to move beyond pain,' says Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Ryan Kendrick, when interviewed in Leiden, Netherlands in November 2015,' what stops them is tissue failure and tissues don't fail because of pain, they fail because of overload. In the literature there is a poor correlation between tissue damage and pain.' (Beecher, 1946; Moseley, 2007). Kendrick says, 'The inability to adequately dissipate or accommodate load is strongly implicated in conditions such as tendinopathy and may also result in compensation strategies and maladaptive behaviour' (Soslowsky et al., 2002, Cook and Purdham, 2009). The role of a physical therapist in sport not only encompasses preparation of the athlete in training, managing current injuries to reduce the risk of exacerbation preevent and the rehabilitation post injury, but it is also significantly focused at the field of play, providing strategies to solve the problems that present during the event. Kendrick, while working in the United Kingdom identified a problem. How to manage load. Kendrick says, 'Certain measures such as building in adequate adaptation and recovery periods into the training schedule, manipulating The ubiquitous tape combination 'Leukotape P,' and its under-tape, 'Fixomull' (designed to reduce the risk of skin reactions due to its hypoallergenic adhesive) and manufactured by BSN medical, was marketed to therapists treating patello-femoral pain syndrome using the McConnell patella taping techniques she first described in the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy (McConnell, 1986).
