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Kinesiology Taping

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Anybody got any long term personal experience of using this method of injury management?

I suffer badly from shin splints and am considering trying it as a solution to a painful problem.

Anybody who is wondering what I'm talking about will probably know - it's a method of joint or muscle support using specialist elasticated tape that helps drain fluid and ease pressure as well as providing support.

Seen on many different athletes in a range of colours and patterns.
 
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I sprained my ankle earlier this season, ordered some of this stuff and found it helped recovery quite a bit! If anything, it has a psychological effect. I felt confidence that my ankle would hold while wearing it. Now if/when my ankle flares up again, I'll pop some back on for a week just to prevent anything nasty happening again.
 
Yes. I use this for my tendinitis and any other muscle type injuries, I personally find it works a treat.
 
I don't know about the tape, I do know about shin splints. Suffered badly with them for half my first season. Tried a lot of things, but this helped the most.

Alternate walking on balls of your feet and then on tip toes. 30 steps each then swap, repeat and repeat and so on. practise it whenever you can, making a cup of tea - practise it, have 5 minutes of advert breaks on the tv - practise it. I still do it now, drives my work colleagues mad! Sorted me out a treat and it has never come back.
 
I too suffer from shin splint and have just recovered from a sprained ankle - i've looked into kinesiology tape before but always feared not applying it correctly.
 
My advice, find a decent physio and have some treatment/massage - you'll find out why you have the issue and how to fix it.

The kinesiology tape is expensive stuff, you may end up spending as much on that as a session with a physio, and fixing the cause is better than fighting the symptoms.
 
Suffered majorly with shin splints a year or so ago.

Get to a physio/Sports Therapist. Get them to "go through" your tibialis anterior muscle (this is the most painful you'll ever have done btw). Get them to k-tape your leg first time so you can see exactly how it's done and have it explained to you.

Going forward, ice - a lot! Then k-tape yourself whenever there's pain and/or before/after games!
 
Have to say kinesiology tape is great like 1 of the posts..... I had tendinitis in my Achilles, ebay if ur looking it cheap a couple of pound for a roll
 
i got mine off of amazon, it's not official KT but a cheaper alternative, £12 for 5 rolls, and does exactly the same as the expensive stuff
 
I know it sounds like a lot of people use the KTA tape, im going to have to agree with @SM here ... a friend of mine is a sport physio - when I suffered from shin splits a little while back she suggested something very similar to what @SM has already said ... rather than walking it was a basic raising yourself onto tip toes then back down to flat foot, repeat it as many times as you can (I still do it now, when I wash up, brush my teeth, standing in a queue etc etc)

I also find it helps to not run at any major incline - it puts too much pressure on the anterior muscle (the muscle that stops your foot from just dangling)
 
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