Prompt 6

By: Nick Izzo

Hello bloggers! Today I’m going to shortly summarize the findings in an article I read about kinesiology tape. I know Emily wrote a blog about kinesiology tape but this study looks at things a little differently.

As explained in the previous kinesiology tape blog, it is supposed to alleviate pain and decrease the amount of inflammation. The question becomes though, does this actually work? There hasn’t really seemed to be a definitive answer on this but some studies have been done. In this study done by the department of exercise and sports science at the University of Wisconsin we find some uneasy results. The study looked at the effect the tape had immediately on the patient and the effect it had after two days of treatment. The patients rated their shoulder pain before and after throwing. There was a baseline test, an immediate test and then the two day test. Turns out, there was little to no significant data changes once the tape was used.

I chose this article because it is making a claim against something that seems to be a prevalent use in kinesiology these days. Many athletes use this tape and claim it helps. I like their argument because it is supported by facts. I took ISB 202 first semester which was Applications Environment and organismal Biology and one very important thing drove into our heads in this class was always support your claims. So this study claimed the tape has no significant assistance to someone with shoulder pain and then they proved it with a supporting study. A claim is much more credible when there are facts there and this article did a very good job at that.

References:

Athletic Training & Sports Health Care: The Journal for the Practicing Clinician Jan2017, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p24 9p