The Effects of KinesioTaping of leg and cognitive task on balance

Abstract
Objective: KinesioTaping is a method for rehabilitation of patients and athletes.

The efficacy of taping to enhance proprioception precision and balance has

been studied. The effects on skin sensory receptors and limb consciousness

are mechanisms of taping but there is an important question that if the persons

pay attention to other task the effectiveness of taping is still exists or not?

Materials and Methods: Ten healthy persons with average age of 28±3/3

years¸ height of 161±4/1cm and weight of 52±14/1kg participated in this study.

The index of stability was assessed in five conditions standing on the BIODEX

ISOKIETIC Instrument. The examination five conditions were as following

order.1-standing barefoot for 20 second (dominant foot).2-standing and dual

tasking for 20 second.(Reverse numbering from digits between 100-150). 3-

standing with taping on proneal muscles for 20 second.4-standing with taping

and dual tasking for 20 second.5-first condition was repeated. Results:

However¸ there was not any significant difference between the Stability Index

(SI) of the test conditions in this study but the pattern of changes showed that

when volunteers performed dual task with or without tape the stability index

improved. Improvement of SI with taping was not considerable. Conclusion:

Taping has a little positive effect on stability but effects of dual tasking were

coincided with the non-linear U-shaped pattern of dual tasking effect. It means

that stability was improved by the dual tasking used in this study which may be

too light to decrease stability of the subjects. This finding showed that triple

reverse numbering is not enough difficulties to attention demand interferes the

stability of the subjects.

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