Drainage tape for swellings, good for achilles tendon injury

The word Kinesio means movement, therefore this method is a type of therapy to facilitate movement. Movement of fluid, i.e. blood and lymph, movement of muscles and joints and movement of posture correction and gait.

It was invented in 1973 by Dr Kenzo Kaze a Chiropractic Doctor from Japan, who used this form of treatment to facilitate their national volley ball team and since then, it moved to New Mexico through Albuquerque University and took the athletic world by storm, one of the most prominent supporter being Lance Armstrong the famous cyclist.

Useful for pain management, for facilitating weak muscles and inhibiting spams helps to increases circulation and even correction of weak postural muscles.

facilitation tapes for pectoral and deltoid muscles, good for strengthening muscles and increase range of motion

I have used it for the last 2 years with my patients it proves to be quite amazing at pain management especially when used correctly, your muscles immediately experience pain relief and if you facilitate the right muscles, it feels light and strong with better range of motion than before.

Downside, is mainly the skin tolerance, adhesion allergy is always a problem, staying on the skin in this humid environment is another issue, the advise I received from the instructor is to use an extra load of adhesive preparation on the skin, but taking the tape off could be quite interesting!

Reddening of the skin after 1 day of application, stayed red for another day, no itch or pain otherwise.

Funny though my palliative care patient who should be the most sensitive of all the population, seem to have the best tolerance of the tape when I used it on them for drainage, it seems to stay on the longest and did not irritate the skin as much as it did on my own skin.

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Before

We found the first tiny wart on her big toe of her left foot in late July 2008.  It was wrongly diagnosed as a corn and we realized something was wrong when 2 more appeared on the ball of her left foot.  Its taken us nearly a year to find a treatment which works without much pain and without new warts appearing. These were the treatments we tried and didn’t work much – Salicyclic acid under the guidance of an experienced podiatrist – the warts became bigger and white and soggy; putting silver solution – the warts became soggier and white; duct tape (worked for the warts on my feet when I accidentally infected myself but worked a little for my daughter); apple cider vinegar (worked somewhat but new warts kept appearing), banana peel, organic mangosteen juice (we had abit of success with this until the juice which we bought somehow looked different from the previous batches), pulsed dye laser (this was good only for very new warts), nitrogen (worked only for very new warts). By August 2009, my daughter was limping as the warts had multiplied and were so huge and thick.  She had to be carried all the time as she couldn’t walk without pain. We were also considering to purchase a wheelchair for her.  We tried to check with the TCM clinics but were told to put salicyclic acid. That month, I found a youtube posting by a guy who said that he went to a sinseh in Singapore for his wart problem on his fingers and hands.  The sinseh is Dr Yu Zhe Kai of the TCM clinic at Eu Yang Sang, Plaza S’pura B2-08A. The sinseh is in the clinic only Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 10 pm. He prescribed something to be taken internally and a paste to be applied externally.

treatment phase

After the application of the TCM past, we found that the warts became dry and crumbly. The 2 largest warts which were very thick became very flat as we could easily scrape them.  Previously, with the other methods, scraping the wart would result in a growth overnight.  At least with the Chinese paste, there doesn’t seem to be an overnight growth or if there is, it’s very slow. At the end of the 2nd week of TCM application, my daughter was hopping out of the clinic.  At the end of the 4th week, she was dancing, jumping, hopping out of the clinic.  She’s fine now, though, we are at the final stages of clearing the warts. It costs about S$100 for 2 weeks of medicine and paste.  Its not cheap but I think I spent alot more on the other treatments which didn’t see much progress and a lot of pain on the part of my daughter. The treatment process is slow if there are a lot of warts.  We’re into our 5^th month of TCM application and we’re down to the 2 largest warts.  The guy (mentioned above) took 2 months to heal his warts on his hands but continued with oral medication for another 2 months.

healing phase

Hopefully, this information can help others with persistent wart problems.

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