Olympic Athletes and Kinesiology Tape

Kinesiology Tape is ideal for managing pain and myofacial dysfunctions. Kinesiology tape is used by American Olympic athletes in training. The tape provides pain reduction, injury prevention, and performance enhancement in personal and professional settings.

The popularity of elastic therapeutic sport tape in the United States began with U.S. Olympic athletes. 50,000 rolls were donated to the U.S. Olympic team and the tape was seen on Olympic athletes in the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. Of these athletes, often photographed was Kerri Walsh who used the tape in competition following surgery on her rotator cuff. Lance Armstrong, 7 time winner of the Tour de France, talks about using tape in his book, where he describes the effectiveness of the treatment for his sore muscles. Gold medalist Serena Williams has also used kinesio tape during competition.

Spider Tech Pre-Cut Kinesiology Tape is ready to apply for immediate use in almost any situation. It's easy to use and comes with QuickMedical's best price guarantee. QuickMedical is the affordable online kinesiology tape source, as well as a great resource for other kinds of durable athletic tape for hospitals, clinics, and athletic departments.

For the first decade after its introduction, orthopedists, chiropractors, acupuncturists and other medical practitioners in Japan were the main users of the therapeutic tape. During the second decade after its introduction the tape was adopted by Japanese Olympic and professional athletes. Today summer Olympic athletes use kinesiology tape regularly, in training and in competition to help achieve their goals.

Spider-Tech has a short instructional video on the best procedure for applying their kinesiology tape, which you can watch here.