Decreasing swelling: If you have had swelling from an injury or surgery, kinesiology tape may help decrease the swelling by decreasing pressure between the skin and underlying tissues. This provides a pathway for excess fluids to travel through. Kinesiology tape is sometimes used in lymphedema manage...
The tape is usually applied by professionals or even patients themselves7,8. Due to its elastic behavior, in the majority of the cases, the tape is only applied along the length of the muscles, and the stimulus on the muscle is, as already underlined, one-dimensional27. Therefore, to trea...