There are some evidences about the positive effects of Kinesio taping among patients post stroke.
I want to know, if it could be useful to decrease the level of spasticity or if it was just as a supporter for their limbs.
Dear Ardalan,
For example, in the study by Qafarizadeh et al. the Kinesio Taping did not improve the wrist flexors spasticity level.
Qafarizadeh F, Kalantari M, Ansari NN, Baghban AA, Jamebozorgi A. The effect of kinesiotaping on hand function in stroke patients: A pilot study. J Bodyw Mov Ther 2018;22(3):829-831. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320009712_The_effect_of_kinesiotaping_on_hand_function_in_stroke_patients_A_pilot_study
And here is a recent Brazilian study:
Cavalcante JGT, do Desterro Costae Silva M, da Fonseca Silva JT, dos Anjos CC, Soutinho RSR. Effect of Kinesio Taping on Hand Function in Hemiparetic Patients. World Journal of Neuroscience 2018;8:293--302. https://file.scirp.org/pdf/WJNS_2018052115450211.pdf
The results of this ongoing study "Kinesiotaping Combined With Therapeutic Exercise in Upper Extremity Spasticity and Function in Subacute Stroke Patients" at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital will certainly be interesting: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT03024190
Best wishes, Martin
Dear Ardalan,
I have been effectively using kinesio taping in my clinical setting on a day-to-day basis. I have found it to be very effective in reducing spasticity of affected muscle groups. Check out the attached pictures taken of a spastic hand with 5 treatments.
Taping also provides awareness of posture to enhance correction of posture during daily activities.
There are quite a few research articles that support the theory. I am currently working on one as well.
Good Luck!
Dear Dr Ardalan Shariat
Please find attached article. May those can help you
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28233009
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1809-29502017000200218&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en
Ardalan Shariat
Kinesiotaping can be a complementary treatment in spasticity management by muscle releasing application method . It can even be more effective as an adjuvant therapy to botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) injection or dry needling of affected muscles.All the therapies should be followed by stretching exercises.
I used voor spasticity for arm to used the arm and mostly the fingers better. There is a little evidence. Greatings Helen
dear Ardalan, I am sorry I have not been aware of your question until now. I have been using leastic therapeutic tape for about 12 years now on both adults and children. My experience is that in the cases of patients with CNS problems such as stroke, the tape will reduce the level of spasticity as long as it is applied, BUT the spasticity level will return to 'normal' after removal. That is not to say that it is not effective. As some of the research already mentioned here above shows, there are interesting effects to be found. One of the main things that can go wrong is using too much stretch... especially with the techniques using 50-100% stretch, the skin of the often frail elderly patient (possibly using anticoagulants) is very sensitive and the skin can be damaged during tape removal. Attached my list of all the articles I am aware of that have researched the effects of tape for stroke patients using both elastic and ridig taping.. studies in various languages are included.. excuse the typos as it is a private list :) Hoping this will help you .... kind regards Esther
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