The effects of new taping methods designed to increase muscle strength.
Tsutomu Fukui, Yuko Otake, Takashi Kondo
PMID 28210042WHAT IT FOUND
In healthy men, the insertion-to-origin gluteus taping package produced the highest immediate hip extension torque, while the origin-to-insertion package produced the lowest.
The tape components cannot be separated.
Key findings
01The insertion-to-origin taping condition gave the highest mean hip extension torque, 398.2 ± 24.3 N, and was significantly greater than the other conditions (p<0.01).
02The origin-to-insertion taping condition gave the lowest mean torque, 343.7 ± 25.9 N, and was significantly lower than the other conditions (p<0.05).
03The dummy tape condition and no-tape condition were not significantly different: 363.7 ± 26.4 N and 371.3 ± 26.3 N.
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What it does not show
Only sixteen healthy male students were studied, so the findings do not apply to women, older adults, injured patients, or people with hip pathology. The study measured only the immediate effect of tape on one muscle, the right gluteus maximus, at one isokinetic speed. The taped conditions included a main tape plus two short tapes, so the contribution of any single component cannot be separated. Only one tape stretch method was tested, and the paper does not report whether participants or assessors were blinded. The paper reports no long-term follow-up or functional patient outcomes.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest. No funding source is reported.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that the main tape direction alone improves strength. The tested conditions also included two short tapes, and the study measured immediate torque in healthy men.