You’ve likely seen athletes decorated in patterns of colorful tape on their knees, shins, quads, and shoulders, and thought, does that really do anything? I was right there with you. That quickly ...

MUNSTER — Physical therapists and athletic trainers with Community Hospital Fitness Pointe touted the benefits of using sports tape at a program Wednesday night. 1. Invert and plantar-flex foot.

Colorful tape on the shoulder of Olympic volleyball player Kerri Walsh was the United States' introduction to kinesio tape. But what is this colorful tape placed in funny patterns doing on people, and ...

Kinesio Tex tape is a brand name of elastic tape patented in 1999 and popularized during the 2008 Olympics after the manufacturer, Kinesio USA, donated 50,000 rolls of the tape to 58 competing ...

LONDON – The lineage of the mysterious tape strips used by Olympic athletes to guard against injury goes back to an old Japanese technique devised to assist sumo wrestlers. Kinesio tape – an ...

The Olympics are entertaining and awe-inspiring—and in many cases, also confusing. Watching volleyball, diving, and track events particularly could leave you wondering: What is that weird tape on ...

Injured Olympians turn to tape. But does it work? Aug. 10, 2012— -- It's everywhere: on abs, legs, backs, even backsides. The neon tape swathing sprinters and swimmers alike, called Kinesio, is ...