11/12/2024
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🌀WHY KTAPE FOR HORSES?🌀
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➰Kinesiology taping has been used on human athletes for a long time and it works the same exact way for our animals.
➰There are many different reasons to use it and the applications can be for therapeutic or rehabilitation in purpose. I’d like to go over a handful of basic applications.
🔹MUSCLE RELAXATION TAPING
-When kinesiology tape is applied to the horses body, it recoils slightly, gently lifting the hair and in turn the skin. This helps to create a microscopic space between your skin and the tissues underneath it, allowing for inflammation to lessen.
*EX: tight sore muscles, such as a glute, neck, longissimus(topline)
🔹PROPRIOCEPTION TAPING
-this taping application promotes the proprioceptive sense, limits excessive movement of the joints and improves proprioceptive feedback mechanisms to decrease muscle mobilization time.
*EX:horses in training-when learning to use a certain muscle group in a new way for them.
🔹JOINT SUPPORT TAPING
-this application will aid in limiting the range of motion for certain muscles and joints can help the body heal faster versus if the movement was not restricted. It can also serve as a “splint boot” for performance horses. Most commonly used to give joints added support to heal from injury or provide support for chronic issues.
*EX: knee, hock, stifle, fetlock support
🔹CIRCULATION TAPING
-this method is designed to increase circulation and subsequently improve muscle function. Encouraging more blood flow to area that are in need.
*EX: hoof circulation, circulation directed to an injured area.
🔹FASCIA TAPING
-fascia taping can release fascia and normalise fascia and muscle tension, enhance circulation, improve muscle function and range of motion significantly often in just one session. Most importantly it works with the neuro transmitters which reduce pain receptors!
*EX: area of tight fascia like a shoulder or along the topline.
💜OVERALL PAIN RELIEF
-Kinesiology tape, can adhere to horses for three-to-five days(sometimes more), takes pressure off 'pain receptors', reduce swelling,improve blood flow, & to aid healing & reduce pain in horses joints and muscles.
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