Does kinesiology tape reduce pain? Ambitious trial says it does!

Kinesiology tape: does it work, or is it just a placebo? An ambitious study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine that involved more than 800 subjects says that it really does help. This contradicts other studies that say it doesn’t work at all – but this has to be the largest scale test to date, so the finding is very interesting indeed.

To paraphrase Lim and Tay, the Singapore-based academics who produced this controversial result, kinesiology tape is a bit more helpful in relieving musculoskeletal pain than no treatment and as good as other ‘minimal interventions’ are. In other …read more