Deans' stroke musings: Effects of the Kinesio® Taping on the gait of stroke subjects: a systematic review with meta-analysis

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Effects of the Kinesio® Taping on the gait of stroke subjects: a systematic review with meta-analysis

I had Kinesio taping on my shoulder. No clue if it did any good at all. You can ask your doctor why a statistically significant gain doesn't result in any clinical use to patients.

Effects of the Kinesio® Taping on the gait of stroke subjects: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Fisioterapia e Pesquisa , Volume 24(2) , Pgs. 218-228.

NARIC Accession Number: I244088. What's this?
Author(s): Patrick Roberto Avelino; Henrique Couto da Gama Magalhães; Kênia Kiefer Parreiras de Menezes.
Publication Year: 2017.
Abstract: This study investigated the effects of the use of Kinesio Taping (KT) on the gait of post-stroke patients through a systematic review of the literature. KT has been used in the rehabilitation of post-stroke patients and several recent studies have investigated its effects on the gait of these patients, reporting promising results. For the review, searches were conducted in the databases Medline, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, Web of Science, LILACS and PEDro, without restrictions of date or language of publication. The articles were screened independently by two evaluators and disagreements were resolved by a third party. Methodological quality was assessed according to the PEDro scale. When possible, outcome measures were analyzed using the program Comprehensive Meta-Analysis, version 3.0. The review included 15 studies of low to moderate methodological quality (mean 4.7). For gait speed, 7 studies of low to moderate methodological quality were included in the meta-analysis that, under the model of fixed effects, found that KT significantly increased the gait speed of post-stroke patients in 0.05 m/s (95%CI 0.002 to 0.100; I2=0%; p<0.05). However, for step length, functional mobility, and balance, no significant difference was found (p>0.05). This systematic literature review showed there is still no evidence of improvement in gait with the use of KT in the rehabilitation of post-stroke patients. Although gait speed, according to the meta-analysis, has shown a statistically significant gain, its value cannot be considered clinically relevant to patients.
Descriptor Terms: Gait, Literature reviews, Orthotics, Rehabilitation, Stroke.
Language: Portuguese
Geographic Location(s): Brazil, South America.

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Citation: Patrick Roberto Avelino, Henrique Couto da Gama Magalhães, Kênia Kiefer Parreiras de Menezes. (2017). Effects of the Kinesio® Taping on the gait of stroke subjects: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Efeitos do uso do Kinesio® Taping na marcha de indivíduos pós-acidente vascular encefálico: uma revisão sistemática com metanálise. Fisioterapia e Pesquisa , 24(2), Pgs. 218-228. Retrieved 5/19/2018, from REHABDATA database.