Kinesiology Taping - A Cutaneous Nervous System Approach

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• Enhance your basic kinesiology taping knowledge with dermoneuromodulating ideas.
• Application of tape to the cutaneous nerve system.
• New ideas for comprehending how kinesiology taping works.
• Recent advances in our understanding of the link between the skin and the neurological system.
• The fundamentals of kinesiology tape and how to use it.

Syllabus :

1. Foundations and Principles of Kinesiology Tape/Taping

• What is Kinesiology Tape/Taping?
• Differences in Kinesiology Tape and Rigid Tape, and the Therapeutic Rationale
• Proposed Benefits of Kinesiology Taping
• Kinesiology Taping Terminology
• Skin and Tape Preparation
• Tape Strips and Tape Tension
• The Skin and Mechanoreceptors
• Mechanoreceptors - Slowly Adapting Receptors
• Mechanoreceptors - Rapidly Adapting Receptors
• Touch and Pain Modulation
• Application of Kinesiology Tape
• Cutting an I-Strip
• Cutting a Y-Strip and Fan-Strip
• Applying the Strip, and Paper-off Tension
• Adding Tension
• Removing Tape and Contraindications/Precautions to Taping

 

2. Taping Applications

• Heel Pain
• Lateral Foot Pain
• Medial Foot Pain
• Lateral Leg Pain
• Medial Leg Pain
• Anterior Knee Pain
• Anterior Thigh Pain
• Lateral Thigh Pain
• Posterior Thigh Pain
• Medial Thigh Pain
• Buttock Pain
• Low back Pain
• Posterior Neck Pain
• Lateral Neck/Clavicular Pain
• Shoulder Pain
• Tricep Pain
• Elbow Pain - 2
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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