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Acute effect of kinesiotaping on pain, balance and gait performance in patients with knee osteoarthritis: A
Tuba Baykal1, Meliha Nur Köfkeci2, Gökçen Arslan Çelik1
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical School, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
Background:
Kinesiotape application is one of the non-pharmacological methods frequently used in patients with knee OA. Guidelines do not have a consensus on its use in knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Objective:
In this study, we aimed to investigate the acute effect of kinesiotape application on pain, balance, and gait performance in patients with knee OA.
Methods:
We included 164 patients with grade 1-3 knee OA according to the Kellgren-Lawrence staging system in the study. Patients were evaluated with visual analog scale (VAS), 10-meter walking test (10MeWT), timed-up and go test (TUG-T), single leg stance test (SLST), and functional reach test (FRT) before and after taping.
Results:
There was a significant improvement in the post-taping scores of all evaluation parameters in the kinesiotaping group compared with pre-taping scores. Statistically significant improvement was found in all scores of evaluated parameters except FRT scores in the placebo taping group. We found a significant superiority in the mean recovery scores of the kinesiotaping group compared to the placebo-taping group in all parameters except for 10MeWT.
Conclusions:
We found significant improvements in both groups. The mean improvement levels in pain and balance scores were better in the KT group than in the PT group.
