Using Kinesio Taping in Patients after Cardiac Surgery

Case Study Full Name: The Possibilities of Using Kinesio Taping® in Patients after Cardiac Surgery By: Jan Szczegielniak - Jacek Luniewski - Katarzina Bogacz - Marcin Krajczy - Zbigniew Sliwinski   Background: Kinesio Taping® is used in physiotherapy to stimulate recovery and increase physical efficiency. Kinesio Taping® offers new possibilities of using physiotherapy in patients who cannot fully benefit from kinesiotherapy or physiotherapy. Kinesio Taping® is a method of treatment of pain syndromes reducing subjective pain perception. Appropriate applications, adjusted to patients' needs and overall health, stimulate the activity of the lymphatic system and auxiliary respiratory muscles, regulate muscle tone, accelerate post-operative scar healing processes and provide additional scar stabilization.