NEUROMUSCULAR AND FUNCTIONAL BANDAGE

In physical therapy, the functional bandage has replaced the compression bandage because, beyond guaranteeing the containment and support that tissue needs to repair itself, as a compression bandage does, it permits the undamaged structures to move. This makes it easier to maintain better equilibrium among tissues: muscle, joints, circulatory and proprioceptive.

But for years now, the leader is the neuromuscular bandage or kinesio taping. This is a self-adhesive, hypoallergenic cotton bandage with a braid of elastic fibers going in just one direction. This and the different ways it can be placed give it several effects: it can stimulate contraction or relaxation, the lymph system; it can be an analgesic, proprioceptive or a corrector… But its principal virtue is that it allows normal movement from the very beginning and that means an injury will heal faster.

It has a wide range of uses, from a sprain to movement retraining, from lymphatic drainage to contracted muscles or torn muscle fibers, etc.