[Elastic adhesive colored bands: description of a new approach]

The new approach of the taping, come from Japan, with coloured sticking adhesive bands, allows another approach in the control and the improvement of the pain and the function among sporting patients or not. The sticking bands have the properties of the skin (weight, thickness, elasticity) and will influence the articular, muscular but especially circulatory function (venous, lymphatic) and the nociceptors (neuroproprioceptive action).Various techniques (muscular, ligament, aponevrotic, lymphatic, neural of correction) are used. The choice of the colours, of the direction of the bands, their tension is a function of the therapeutic objectives. As for any technique, a formation is essential before any use.