How To Use Kinesiology Tape To Treat Anterior Knee Pain

Kinesiology tape can be used to small treat injuries whilst you're on the go. Garmin-Sharp chiropractor Matt Rabin showed us how to treat anterior knee pain.
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If you have slight anterior knee pain, there's no harm in using kinesiology tape (Rock Tape in this case) to treat and support your knee. However, if you're in serious pain or if you're worried that you're doing any damage, then please go to a physio to make sure that you're not going to do any lasting harm.
If you think that the injury is only a slight tweak and that you'll be able to continue training, then using a bit of tape can get you through a four hour ride or race.
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[@spaceanduniverse27]

Thanks for this video! I have been wanting to learn how to inline skate and due from a lot from too much sitting - I have gained very troublesome knee pain. So, this may very well help me when I'm trying to learn how to incline skate. Thanks!

[@MikeFelding]

Never even knew you had these videos :-) GCN always has the answers, love you guys!!!

[@BradHati]

You must've read my comment from the last video you posted as I complained a bit about my knee pain! Thanks for this, GCN, and also thanks to Matt!

[@kneepain7364]

Very informative for Knee Pain

[@stevenbell482]

u guys are f..... incredible!!! thanks for all these use full tip's!

[@CtFshd1812]

Thanks man, Really needed this

[@combinio9533]

Very PRO tutorial. Brilliant! Thank You :)

[@orangepuma01]

Great video

[@cr3ations]

great video

[@MrJohanSten]

I love these videos

[@adamshutt1566]

Is this part rehabilitation? I'm studying sports injuries, sports massage and anatomy/physiology so I found this very interesting. Thank you GCN!

[@niroo4228]

Thanks alot!!!!

[@felipeandresorellana1537]

Can you post a video on how to do it for shoulder pain? Please, thank you

[@kwacker45]

KT had some substantial effects on muscle activity, but it was unclear whether these changes were beneficial or harmful. In conclusion, there was little quality evidence to support the use of KT over other types of elastic taping in the management or prevention of sports injuries"

[@sportsinjuriesmanchester6776]

pro video guys, nice work

[@israelwolf]

You guys are awesome! Last week I used kinesio tape for the first time to ride, but unfortunately I got a stress fracture of the fibula (running), so kinesio can`t help that much, hehehe. Great vid! Waiting for the lower back one! :)

[@andyhill3537]

Loving cyclist tan line - clearly doesn't do much riding in the UK, lucky boy.

[@thomasjessop9144]

First of all thanks replying VBR. I run time pedals and cleats and I was told that you should have your cleats right below the ball of your foot is that the right place?

[@chrisdyer1000]

There's one missing! I get problems with my elbows. Any special tape job for that?

[@CreamyBone]

chiropractors how to make the coolest looking tape designs

[@coolguy6747]

Those tan lines 👌👌👌

[@THSimagery]

I had a tracking issue on my knee. The physical therapist started taping my knee while rehabilitation. We have been stretching, and strength training with the tape. I cycling 100miles a week. It’s been helping with tracking, but the training has been most helpful. The goal is to strengthen the supporting muscles to the point I start tracking better.

[@ITFCBlue10]

He looks so scared

[@tomseller660]

What Music is in the back ground?

[@danicaching2206]

can you still run even if you have that?

[@BenjaminISmith]

So this makes it take less energy to extend the knee joint but that much more difficult to contract the knee joint? And it does this by gripping the skin? And even if it works, that's supposes to relieve knee pain? Seems like it would just cause more pain when you have to take it off and make you look even sillier than you already do in that onezy

[@thomasjessop9144]

I have another question for you guys. when I have on bike for 4 or so hours I sometimes feel pain in the front of my foot, just about the ball of the toe. Do you guys have a solution to this?

[@TheVBRTube]

check the position of your cleats and the type of pedals. SPD's have a tendency to cause these "stress spots" after constant pressure on the pedals.

[@FraMart2007]

i play soccer so i run a lot, and suddenly i started getting a small pain on both my knees. So Iam interested in buying this expensive 20 strip roll KT tape, but I want to know if anybody has used this and if they think it works. thanks

[@oli3232]

Frankie Martinez did u try it?

[@akim.e4793]

im not really understand english but thanks for ur clear instraction..✨i can do it myself without google translate "my mum"😂

[@neoblazer4747]

What's the name of the song (artist as well) in the background music? Thanks

[@gcn]

Hi Neoblazer, that's all in the description, but it's: Hiatus - We Can Be Ghosts Now feat. Shura: gcn.eu/GXLsvo

[@jpoodle]

Real question here, where do you buy this tape? (not specifically the blue tape, just kinesio tape in general...)

[@ktmbiker3608]

or in the sports part of stores

[@jpoodle]

thanks you two!

[@Otaner142]

Is there any tape for a cold ?!

[@AdrianR74]

2:43 dat tan line

[@tiankaitan3754]

dude....you forgot to rub the tape....haha...:p

[@Matt-cj9lm]

that English accent he has is awesome

[@HDZippo]

Can you do this for football?

[@gcn]

morten iversen I'm sure that it would support your knee for football, but it's definitely worth getting your knee checked out by a physio or sports therapists if it's giving you a lot of bother.

[@PaulJakma]

Global Cycling Network Chiropractice is the art of fleecing the gullible with quackery and the placebo effect. It's a bit sad to read GCN promoting it.

[@BigProcATC]

Paul Jakma Actually, there is plenty of peer reviewed research that has led to more evidence based practice of kinesiology taping. Why would you make such a blanketed negative statement without putting any research into it? That's pretty ignorant of you.

[@avibank]

+Paul Jakma Here here

[@kwacker45]

Think he is more worried about being stabbed in the eye

[@jasonbrown678]

Errrr... no. There's no good evidence that Kinesio will do anything, except make your leg a bit more colourful. And perhaps act as a placebo. www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/kinesio-tape-athletes-help-hype

[@BigProcATC]

For those naysayers that "don't believe in" kinesiology taping, and think it's just placebo effect snake oil medicine, check out this article. breakingmuscle.com/mobility-recovery/4-lies-youve-been-told-about-kinesiotape

[@avibank]

+BigProcATC That article didn't convince this academic. Try google scholar. You'll have less luck. Of course, if you think chiropractics is a thing, you're probably going to love kinesiology taping anyway. GO TO A DOCTOR WAKE UP SHEEPLE

[@Maffew3114]

He looks so scared...

[@johnsongusion]

Wow, watching them grow every week until they grew by two cups is definitely satisfying, I went with what I commented about and after the first 20 days or so I went up by one cup! I simply go'ogled the latest by Mika Klopsworth and now they’re fuller and firmer than I expected!

[@simoncourchesne647]

Super cringe ahaha

[@intersteviainterstevia1144]

LOL the guy is not pro ......

[@PaulJakma]

Kinesio tape - pure snake oil. You're paying daft prices for sticky tape and bullshit. You're as well taping the €/£/$ notes to your legs with masking tape - same effect.

[@BigProcATC]

Paul Jakma Your statement is based on what research?

[@PaulJakma]

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1440244007000837 www.jospt.org/doi/abs/10.2519/jospt.2009.3072 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1466853X10000519

[@BigProcATC]

If you read the one in JOSPT, you'll see that there was significant difference between experimental and control groups. The other 2 were testing to see if taping added strength, which it obviously cannot. Who was implying that it could? That would be ludicrous.

[@BigProcATC]

Your original comment was on a video explaining how to tape for pain. You said it was "snake oil bullshit," and then quoted an article that clearly showed that it helps with pain.

[@moistdelux]

this guys is taking this KT tape too seriously..his explanation is way tooo long. -___-

[@kturnbull1]

Absolute nonsense. Tape attached to skin cannot possibly influence deep muscles and tendons transmitting such enormous mechanical forces. At best this is providing a therapeutic value through sensory distraction from the injury or a placebo effect. Neither of which address the underlying injury. 'Facilitate' 'Anterior' 'Kinesio' all so pseudoscientific to give this treatment undue credence.

[@BigProcATC]

kturnbull1 So you're saying you don't believe that tactile stimulation can affect muscle recruitment or proprioception? Ummm..."Anterior" isn't pseudoscientific...It's simply an anatomical definition of which area of the knee. Furthermore, there is plenty of peer reviewed research into kinesiology taping that is defining the way it is used. Your statement is one made in ignorance. Do even just a little research. Even if you try Google Scholar to look up scholarly articles. Jeez.

[@kturnbull1]

BigProcATC Having competed in sport at a National level, as a doctor with over 10 years of experience, having worked in the orthopaedic department at King's College Hospital and now as a GP, I have plenty of experience to draw from. I have also done my fair share of a 'little research' over this time and do not feel that my opinion is one made in ignorance. The NHS may not be colourful, fun and trendy like this tape but we are honest when it comes to treating patients.

[@BigProcATC]

I'm not saying you're ignorant. I'm saying you are ignorant of this particular modality. Do you know how many orthopods I've dealt with that are ignorant to any advancements in treatment protocols or GPs making diagnoses and concussion recommendations completely opposite to recent clinical findings and position statements, further putting their patients into danger - just because they haven't done the research? Again, not saying you're generally ignorant, but it seems you have not researched this particular subject.