What is taping?

Taping or strapping is a technique used by physiotherapists for injury prevention or rehabilitation. The specialist physiotherapists at Manchester Physio are fully trained in how to apply effective taping depending on your goals of treatment. The physiotherapists can also teach you how to apply the tape yourself so you can continue to experience the benefit.

What are the benefits of taping?

The benefits of taping will depend on your injury. Your physiotherapists will aim to encourage some of the following benefits:

Protection of injured soft tissue structures (ligaments, tendons, fascia)
Injury prevention
Encourage normal movement
Quicker return to sport or work
Pain reduction
Improves the stability of a joint
Reduces the risk of re-injury
Reduces swelling

Who will benefit from?

At Manchester Physio we use taping as part of a treatment programme for many injuries and conditions including:

Shoulder injuries
Ankle sprains
Knee pain
Heel pain (plantar fasciitis)
Tendonitis e.g. tennis elbow
Muscle strains e.g. hamstrings, groin, quadriceps

The physiotherapists at Manchester Physio have succeeded in taping sports people with a variety of injuries to allow them to successfully complete an event from marathons to football finals.

How can taping help me?

Whether you are recovering from an injury or would like to use taping as an injury prevention technique, taping can help you in the following ways:

Helps to reduce pain by stimulating movement detectors in the nerve (mechanoreceptors) which stop messages passing via pain receptors (nociceptors)
Restrict movements that may cause further damage to an existing injury
Facilitate the normal healing process of soft tissues
Support and protect the muscles surrounding an injured joint
Remove the pressure from an injury
Helps to reduce swelling
Provide feedback to the area to correct any abnormal movements
Provide proprioception (awareness of joints position) to reduce the risk of re injury
Improve the coordination of a joint that may be reduced by injury

If you feel like you may benefit from taping in physiotherapy treatment, then please call Manchester Physio today on 0161 883 0077 today arrange a full assessment.

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