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Kinesiotaping, strapping athletes
You’re Seeing a lot recently and the athletes on TV with some bandages colors that attract attention. It seems a novelty, but the fact is that this type of dressing was invented long ago and is the neuromuscular or Kinesiotaping Mennecke bandage.
The bases of the treatment were created in the 70s in Asia, specifically in Korea and Japan. It was not until the ’90s when the football player Alfred Nijhuis Dutchman introduced it in Europe.
In Spain one of the first to test the benefits of Kinesiotaping was exciclista Marino Lejarreta Utsonomiya in the world, in Japan.
The truth is that I had never heard of them until this summer a masseuse in San Sebastian I dealt with a sore neck with colored ribbons. At first I was a little surprised but the truth is that my pain improved significantly only with tape.
There 4 color key for working with tapes Kinesiotaping: pink, black, blue and beige, each more specific for each type of pain. The dressing is flexible, has a stretch of 140-160% in the transverse, so that the therapist will play with this tension in terms of intended treatment.
The tapes are placed Insert day rise to muscle or vice versa. If the place of origin Insert day, we will be toning specific muscle and if we do origin Insert day to relax. The main advantage of these dressings is that they are set too well to the skin so it can last 4 to 6 days even showering with them.