Dr. Manison is a Certified Kinesio® Taping Practitioner (CKTP®).   He is one of only a couple dozen in the state of Maryland.  Kinesio Taping goes along with Dr. Manison’s skills in ART, Graston, and other advanced rehabilitative techniques as it sometimes can help to ‘lock in’ changes thereby furthering the patient’s progress. 

So, what is Kinesio Tape?  Kinesio Tape  is an advanced form of taping that was developed by Dr. Kenso Kase.  He created it in the 1970s after frustration with standard tapings’ inability to support structures yet allow them to function normally.  Dr. Kase had a strong background in kinesiology and he knew that much musculoskeletal pain resulted from dysfunction of the joints and their surrounding tissues.  In light of this, he created Kinesio Tape to address skin, fascia, muscles, ligaments, joints, and the circulatory/lymphatic system. 

Kinesio Tape is about the thickness of skin and this makes it very comfortable, as the user is many times hardly aware that the tape is even on!   Kinesio Tape is a specialized cotton weave with acrylic glue used to adhere it to skin.  There is no latex and due to this, very few people have allergic reactions.  The tape ‘breathes’, and it is waterproof.  It is unique in its ability to virtually simulate fascial and muscle movement by its wave-like pattern that runs through the acrylic glue.  The tape is also able to stretch a large amount and this helps with certain applications.

Kinesio Taping can be used for the following conditions: 

• Functional correction
• Inhibition correction
• Ligament/tendon correction
• Lymphatic/Circulation correction
• Mechanical correction
• Fascial correction
• Space correction

Most of us are familiar with the ‘black tape’ that was used on the volleyball players during the 2008 summer Olympic Games.  The tape used was Kinesio Tape.  This is not the first high profile usage of Kinesio Tape.  The tape has been used for years and is gaining in popularity with all levels of athletes.  Please read the following article that discusses Lance Armstrong in 2005 and his experience with Kinesio Taping.

Please click here for USA Today article about Lance Armstrong and Kinesio Tape.