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Effects of kinesiotaping on foot posture in participants with pronated foot: a quasi-randomised, double-blind study
Alejandro Luque-Suarez1, Gabriel Gijon-Nogueron2, Francisco Javier Baron-Lopez3
1Physiotherapy Department, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
Objective:
To investigate whether kinesiotaping improves excessive foot pronation compared with sham kinesiotaping.
Design:
Quasi-randomised, double-blind study.
Setting:
One primary care centre.
Participants:
One hundred and thirty participants were screened for inclusion. Sixty-eight participants with pronated feet [Foot Posture Index (FPI)≥ 6] were enrolled, and the follow-up rate was 100%.
Interventions:
Participants were allocated into one of two groups: an experimental kinesiotaping group (KT1) and a sham taping group (KT2). Measures were collected by a blinded assessor at baseline, and 1 minute, 10 minutes, 60 minutes and 24 hours after taping.
Main Outcome Measures:
The primary outcome was total FPI score, and the secondary outcome was rear-foot FPI score.
Results:
There were no significant differences in total FPI score between kinesiotaping and sham taping at any time point. Similarly, there were no significant differences in rear-foot FPI score, apart from at 60-minute follow-up when the difference between groups was significant (P=0.04) but the effect size was very small (0.85 points on the rear-foot FPI score between -6 and +6).
Conclusions:
Kinesiotaping does not correct foot pronation compared with sham kinesiotaping in people with pronated feet.