Deans' stroke musings: Effects of kinesio taping for stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study

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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.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Effects of kinesio taping for stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study

I had kinesio taping for my upper arm, don't know if it helped at all. Then there is this from 2006.

Kinesio taping in stroke: improving functional use of the upper extremity in hemiplegia

And this from May 2019;

Systematic Review on Effectiveness of shoulder taping in Hemiplegia

The latest here:

Effects of kinesio taping for stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (formerly the Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine) , Volume 49(3) , Pgs. 208-215.

NARIC Accession Number: J81397. What's this?
ISSN: 1650-1977.
Author(s): Huang, Yen-Chang; Chang, Kwang-Hwa; Liou, Tsan-Hon; Cheng, Chau-Wei; Lin, Li-Fong; Huang, Shih-Wei.
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study investigated the effects of Kinesio taping for 21 stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain within 6 months of stroke onset in the rehabilitation ward of a medical university hospital in Taiwan. Participants were randomly assigned to 2 groups: a therapeutic Kinesio taping group and a control group. A 3-week intervention involving a conventional rehabilitation protocol and therapeutic Kinesio taping was conducted with an experimental group of 11 stroke patients. The control group of 10 stroke patients underwent an identical conventional rehabilitation program and sham Kinesio taping on the hemiplegic shoulder. Numerical rating scale scores, the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI), ultrasound findings, and pain-free passive range of motion (PROM) of the affected shoulder, were evaluated before and after the intervention. Mann-Whitney test was used to compare within-group continuous variables before and after the intervention. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to analyze the differences and changes in values between study and control groups. There was no statistical difference in demographic variables between the 2 groups. Both groups showed improvement in PROM of the shoulder and mean SPADI score after the intervention; however, no significant between-group differences were observed in the numerical rating scale score, pain-free PROM, and ultrasound findings for the shoulder after 3 weeks of treatment. Concerning the variables changes, the therapeutic Kinesio taping group showed more improvement in the numerical rating scale, shoulder flexion, external rotation, internal rotation, and the SPADI than the sham Kinesio taping group.
Descriptor Terms: DEVICES, HEMIPLEGIA, JOINTS, PAIN, PHYSICAL MEDICINE, STROKE.

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Citation: Huang, Yen-Chang, Chang, Kwang-Hwa, Liou, Tsan-Hon, Cheng, Chau-Wei, Lin, Li-Fong, Huang, Shih-Wei. (2017). Effects of kinesio taping for stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (formerly the Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine) , 49(3), Pgs. 208-215. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.