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Does Kinesio Taping reduce pain and swelling, and increase muscle strength, function and knee-related health status in older people with knee osteoarthritis?
Kinesio Taping
Method is definitive rehabilitative taping technique which provides support and
stability to muscles and joints without obstructing the body’s range of motion
to assist the body’s natural healing process. To protract the advantages of
manual therapy administered within the clinical setting, it provides the
extended soft tissue manipulation. This method for knee osteoarthritis has been
explored here.
Does Kinesio
Taping reduce pain and swelling, and increase muscle strength, function and
knee-related health status in older people with knee osteoarthritis?
Randomised,
controlled trial with concealed allocation, intention-to-treat analysis and
blinded assessment. Seventy-six older people with knee osteoarthritis. The
experimental group received three simultaneous Kinesio Taping techniques to
treat pain, strength and swelling. The control group received sham taping. All
participants kept the taping on for 4 days. Concentric muscle strength of knee
extensors and flexors, measured by isokinetic dynamometry with an angular
velocity of 60 deg/second normalised for body mass [(Nm/kg) x 100 (%)]; pressure
pain threshold via digital pressure algometry (kgf/cm2 ); lower-limb swelling
via volumetry (l) and perimetry (cm); physical function via the Lysholm Knee
Scoring Scale (0 = worst to 100 = best); and knee-related health status via the
Western Ontario and McMaster (WOMAC) osteoarthritis index (0 = best to 96 =
worst). Outcomes were measured at Day 4 (end of the taping period) and Day 19
(follow-up) after the start of the treatment.
At Day 4, there
were no significant between-group differences for knee extensor muscle strength
(MD –1%, 95% CI –7 to 5), knee flexor muscle strength (MD 2%, 95% CI –3 to 7),
the pressure pain threshold at any measured point, volumetry (MD 0.05 L, 95% CI
–0.01 to 0.11), perimetry at any measured point, Lysholm score (MD –4 points,
95% CI –9 to 2), or WOMAC score (MD –2 points, 95% CI –8 to 4). The lack of
significant between-group difference was also seen at the follow-up assessment
on Day 19.
The Kinesio
Taping techniques investigated in this study provided no beneficial effects for
older people with knee osteoarthritis on any of the assessed outcomes.
Journal of Physiotherapy
Kinesio Taping does not improve the symptoms or function of older people with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised trial
Bruna Wageck et al.
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