In the marathon, the sharp-eyed friends must have seen some runners with tape wrist basketball on their bodies.
Not just running, but many national team players have tape wrist basketball on them.
I don’t know when it started, more and more runners are using tape wrist basketball wrist basketball. The sticking method also appears in various parts of the body.
But what is the actual effect of this tape wrist basketball? Does this patch really work?
Let’s take a brief look at tape wrist basketball first
tape wrist basketball is currently the most common treatment tool for the prevention, rehabilitation and improvement of body performance for musculoskeletal and joint injuries.
It was first invented by Dr. Kase Jianjian in Japan in the late 1970s. The name comes from the prefix of the English word “Kinesiology”, which is translated as “Kinesiology” in China.
Domestic professionals often call it “Intramuscular”. Effect stickers, muscle energy stickers, muscle stickers, etc.
The tape wrist basketball is divided into three layers:
The outermost layer is a breathable and elastic waterproof cotton cloth (so the patch can be stretched within a certain limit, up to 130%~150%).
The middle layer is usually acrylate hypoallergenic adhesive, and the inner layer is back-friendly paper.
The rubber surface of the middle layer is distributed in the shape of water ripples (the width, spacing, wavelength and amplitude of the ripples are all specified).
The glue coated on tapes should pass the biocompatibility test, generally it is not easy to cause skin allergy and does not contain pharmaceutical ingredients.
It is precisely because it has no medicinal properties that it can relieve pain, reduce edema, improve blood circulation, correct posture, and help muscles contract and relax. That’s why it’s so popular!
But is it really so magical? You must know the following 8 conclusions about the clinical research on the intramuscular effect post at home and abroad.
1.There may be some therapeutic effect on the application of tapes that may increase skeletal muscle strength, but it is not clinically meaningful. In some studies, individual muscle peak force/peak torque was increased, but the patch did not help healthy adults gain strength.
2.A study of healthy individuals using different tape wrist basketball methods on the same site showed that none of the different kinematic taping methods produced facilitation and inhibition (ie, did not increase muscle strength).
3.For those who support the effect of the kinesio tape, it is more from the psychological cue effect.
4.tape wrist basketball may have an injury-preventive effect, but these studies did not provide direct measures of injury-prevention.
5.In a comparative study investigating the pain relief of kinesiolytic tapes, there were even clinically insignificant results.
6.In a study on the effect of kinesio tapes on symptoms of low back pain, the application of tape wrist basketball with moderate stretching to create wrinkles in the skin was no more effective than no stretching of the tapes.
This result directly challenged the mechanism of action of this therapy.
7.The proper application of the tape wrist basketball has a certain effect on limiting the range of motion of the joints.
8.The current study showed that the application of the tape wrist basketball did not result in higher peak torque and increased work during joint movement, nor did it shorten the retention time of peak torque during exercise in healthy young adults.
Therefore, the positive results of previous studies on the tape wrist basketball can be attributed to the placebo effect.
Therefore, the psychological comfort effect of the tape wrist basketball is actually greater than the actual physical effect.
