Effects of Kinesio® Tape in low back muscle fatigue: Randomized, controlled, doubled-blinded clinical trial on healthy subjects

Álvarez-Álvarez, S.; José, Francisco García-Muro San; Rodríguez-Fernández, Ángel Luis; Güeita‐Rodríguez, Javier; Waller, Benjamin

doi:10.3233/bmr-130437

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“…Just a few studies considered other subjects chronic conditions (15)(16)(17)(18), two considered the use of analgesics (17,18), the range of age (21,20), and one study excluded subjects with body mass index higher than 29 (20).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(9,19), taping over paraspinal muscles either side over lumbar spine (14,17,22), or overlapping in a star shape and asterix taping (17,18). For the stimulation of correct movements, extensibility, and fatigue delay in healthy subjects could be the optimal technique to tape either side over lumbar spine (15) or the fascial correction technique (20). Patients with chronic low back pain could benefit from overlapping technique, where the tape is in a star shape, and in that way reduce the pain, positively affect anticipatory postural control and movement-related cortical potential (18).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The diagnosis of low back pain ranged from "patient seeking treatment" (9,19), "pain score at least 4" (17,18), or had to be diagnosed by an orthopedist (14). Two studies (15,20) researched just healthy subjects. It seems, that the only criteria, agreed by most analyzed studies are the statement about the chronic pain, describing it as the pain that lasts at least 3 months (14,(17)(18)(19).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Pain, which can be fully evaluated and described only by patient, is assessed as nonspecific low back pain (9,14), endurance (9), reduced extent of affected area muscles (9,15,16), related to its intensity (17,18), and duration (17,14,18). Criteria for subject selection varied more obviously in pain definition.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The subjects were Kinesio-taped by physiotherapists (9,15,14,18,19), taping practitioners (17) or the examiner (20).…”

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Efficacy of kinesio taping in reducing low back pain

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2019

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“…The subjects were Kinesio-taped by physiotherapists (9,15,14,18,19), taping practitioners (17) or the examiner (20).…”

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Magnetic Resonance Elastography in the Assessment of Acute Effects of Kinesio Taping on Lumbar Paraspinal Muscles

Wang

Fang

Liang

et al. 2018

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Background: Kinesio tape (KT) is an elastic therapeutic tape used for treating sports-related injuries and a number of other disorders. To date, the objective evidence to link pathophysiological effects and actual reactions triggered by KT is limited. Purpose: To explore the effect of KT on the lumbar paraspinal muscles by magnetic resonance (MR) elastography. Study Type: Prospective observational study. Population: Sixty-six asymptomatic volunteers with 31 women and 35 men. Field Strength/Sequence: 3.0T MRI and elastography with vibration frequency of 120 Hz. Assessment: The 5-cm-width KT with full tension was placed on a single side of the lumbar paraspinal muscle. The taping side and adhering direction were randomly decided. Two rectangular regions of interest (ROIs) of 5-and 2.5-cm-width were positioned at the bilateral paraspinal regions from the L2 to L4 level on the confidence map of MR elastography before and after KT taping. The mean shear stiffness values of the ROIs at the superficial, middle, and deep depths were recorded; then the differences between the taping and reference sides were calculated. Statistical Tests: Paired t-test and Pearson correlations were used to evaluate the stiffness changes after KT application and intraoperator errors of the stiffness measures on the reference side, respectively. Results: A significant decrease in the muscle stiffness value between taping and reference sides (-0.71 kPa ± 0.60 with KT and -0.25 kPa ± 0.78 without KT, P < 0.0001 for 5-cm ROI; -0.67 kPa ± 1.12 with KT and -0.16 kPa ± 1.17 without KT, P = 0.0004 for 2.5-cm ROI) was found in the superficial depth, but no significant differences in the middle and deep depths (P = 0.25 and P = 0.79 for 5-cm ROI; P = 0.09 and P = 0.67 for 2.5-cm ROI, respectively). There were no significant differences of muscle stiffness differences between gender (P = 0.11 for superficial, P = 0.37 for middle, P = 0.78 for deep) and taping direction (P = 0.18 for superficial, P = 0.13 for middle, P = 0.15 for deep). Data Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that KT can reduce the MR elastography-derived shear stiffness in the superficial depth of paraspinal muscles. Level of Evidence: 2 Technical Efficacy: Stage 2

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Visualization and Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends on Human Fatigue Assessment

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Chen

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J Med Syst

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This study aims to analyze the scientific research progress on human fatigue assessment (HFA) by using a bibliometric method, which was conducted a systematic analyses of 28,028 scientific papers about HFA from the Web of Science database, and the results were discussed from the following perspectives: temporal distribution, geographical distribution, discipline distribution, and key words distribution. In addition, this analysis also provides the network of author co-citation and key words. The results are summarized as follows: 1) the number of papers about HFA increased rapidly since 1990s; 2) The United States is a high-yield, high-cited country with 36.70% of the world's total literatures, and whose average citation index on HFA research is 47.89 per paper; China is the developing country with the largest number of publications, but its total citations and average citations are backward, only with an average of 21 citations per article; 3) The assessment of human fatigue shows the development trend of multidisciplinary intersecting; 4) There is a relative lack of cooperation among the world's leading scholars; the Dutch Gijs Bleijenberg is the most published scholar in the world, who have 108 articles on HFA research; the American scholar David Cella has the most influential article, with an h-index of 36; the distribution of Chinese scholars is relatively scattered, and no one has written more than five articles; 5) All of countries in the world had the same research topics, "muscle fatigue" is an important part of the HFA; China needs to pay more attention to the fatigue assessment associated with cancer. The results of the analysis can be used to enhance our understanding of HFA research and support further research in this area.

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Effects of Kinesio® Tape in low back muscle fatigue: Randomized, controlled, doubled-blinded clinical trial on healthy subjects

Abstract: KT appears to improve the time to failure of the extensor muscle of the trunk obtained using the Biering-Sorensen test. These findings suggest that KT influences processes that lead to muscle fatigue and that KT could be effective in the management of LBP.

Cited by 58 publications

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Efficacy of kinesio taping in reducing low back pain

Efficacy of kinesio taping in reducing low back pain

Magnetic Resonance Elastography in the Assessment of Acute Effects of Kinesio Taping on Lumbar Paraspinal Muscles

Visualization and Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends on Human Fatigue Assessment

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