Kinesiology Taping for Massage Therapists | 3 CEU

The following sections I will show you how to apply Kinesio tape so that if you have pain or injury, or your clients does, then you will be able to look at the following lecture to see how to apply the tape for various parts of the body. You can download the Kinesio Tape PDF file so that you can always use it as a quick resource.

This is how you tape for the biceps problems. It can be used for biceps tears, tendonitis or to just give more support for the biceps muscle if the person needs added strength and function.

It's time to do the taping for tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

This taping procedure is for golfers elbow but you can use the same method for any wrist flexor pain or weakness, or any other medial elbow pain such as ulnar nerve entrapments

This elbow taping procedure is used for people that have any elbow instability or pain in general such a a hyper extension injury to the elbow or arthritis.

I have suffered from this once and the taping procedure is a little more complex to do on yourself but easy enough to do for someone else.

Here is how you tape the anterior wrist for conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome, anterior wrist pain and to help someone with grip strength such as rock climbers

Here is an alternative method that you can use for carpal tunnel syndrome especially if either the other taping method wasn't very effective or the person found that the tape would peel off. This taping procedure stops that from happening

This is for thumb problems such as what is know and Mother's thumb from holding the baby with the thumb tendons contracted for excessive periods of time. This is a great way to help this painful problem.

Here is another condition that I have had. It is very painful and if you are a massage therapist you need to make sure that you have good technique and do not use excessive ulcer deviation like it did when I started out in massage. The taping procedure can also be used for other painful wrist conditions as well of course.

Here is a great technique for taping with someone that has generalized wrist pain

The quadriceps muscle we look at here. It can be used for muscles tears, to increase strength and support for athletes and also help if someone has been bruised by a direct contact to the muscle, what we call in Australia as a 'corky'.

Here is the way to tape someone that has a haematoma and this is also the same procedure that we use for all swelling such as a swollen ankle as you will see in the course.

Here is a great way to help with generalized knee pain and support. If you are treating someone that has some knee instability or general pain in their knee then this is the taping procedure you should use. This is also a good procedure for someone with arthritis in their knee.

This is a more advanced technique to help people that have patella femoral tracking problems. You may see this with runners most commonly, hence the name, and the pain is exacerbated by the patella tracking laterally so here we use the tape to direct and hold the patella more medially to help with better, more pain free function

Here is a condition that you will probably see more on the medial side of the knee because the medial ligament connect to the medial meniscus and so a medial knee injury can also affect the meniscus. This is a taping procedure that can be used to heal an injury more quickly and also for pain. You do the same procedure for medial and lateral sides.

Here is another way that you can help someone with anterior knee pain or just knee pain and instability in general. It is quick, simple and very effective.

Here is how we tape the hamstrings.

If you treat a lot of runners and bike riders, especially long distance ones, then you are bound to see this condition. Here is the correct way to tape the ITB

You may come across someone suffering from Osgood Schlatters disease so here it the taping technique that you can do for this.

That awful crick in the neck that many people get when they wake up from a night's sleep and find it difficult to turn their head. Normally it is much worse turning towards the side of the pain. The levator scapula muscle is generally the culprit so here is what you should do with the taping procedure.

This is how you do your own lower back taping. It takes a bit of practice but it is possible to do

Ok, and now I show you just how easy it is to tape someone else

That awful trigger point pain in the trapezius that often comes from hitching your shoulder such as carrying a handbag over your shoulder for a long amount of time.

You will see shoulder problems all the time in the clinic. This is why I wanted to spend a little more time explaining what goes on in the shoulder joint and how you can best help your clients. Knowledge is power!

Here is an explanation of how shoulders impinge and what to do about them therapeutically

Here is how to treat someone with a supraspinatus problem such as impingement syndromes.

Here is how to tape for general shoulder pain, frozen shoulder, to improve support for the shoulder and help with shoulder function.

Once you have treated the person, given them abduction exercises and explained to them what and why is their problems. then you have applied the kinesio tape, now you can also give them these strengthening exercises

This is the way to apply the tape for someone that has calf pain or a strain

You are bound to see people in your clinic with these problems from time to time, especially if you treat a lot of athletes.

Here is another common problem and is worsened from running on uneven surfaces.

This is a common problem especially for hikers from hiking down mountains and causing DOMS( delayed onset muscle soreness) from all of the eccentric contracting that the tibial anterior muscles have to do walking down hills.

Here is a very difficult condition to treat successfully. This taping techniques is excellent and helping this nasty condition.

Here is another way to tape it, this techniques is especially good if the person is very active

This techniques can be used for all types of swelling to reduce fluid. but you will most commonly come across the swelling from sprained ankles.

This is an easy way to help ankle sprains to reduce pain, swelling and improve function.

This is a more advanced taping but it is great to know how to do this to help people with chronically weak ankles, ankles that have had one or more sprains to give excellent support.

Here are some other very helpful techniques that you can use as well.

Kinesio tape is not cheap to buy also the questions begs. Should you charge more for your treatment? Here is my opinion on this

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