Kinesiotaping Reduces Knee Diameter but Has No Effect on Differences Pain and Edema Following Knee Artroscopy

Abstract

PŮVODNÍ PRÁCE MATERIAL AND METHODSDesigned as a prospective study, this study enrolled a total of 42 patients who underwent knee arthroscopy. All participants were informed about the study and all of them gave informed consent prior to treatment. The patients were randomized on the basis of the rank of admission, and the first group underwent a total of 4 kinesiotherapy sessions on postoperative second, eighth, sixteenth, and twenty-fourth days while the second group underwent sham taping therapy for mimicking kinesiotaping. All operations were carried out by two surgeons (M.E, E.K).The study involved a total of 42 patients older than 18 years of age who underwent knee arthroscopy and agreed to participate in the study (Table 1). Patients with the following properties were excluded: Those with dermal hypersensitivity reaction against kinesiotherapy, extensive arthrosis, or extensive synovitis like pigmented villonodular synovitis; who were younger than 18 years of age; who

Effect of Postoperative Kinesio Taping on Knee Edema, Pain, and Range of Motion After Total Knee Arthroplasty and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

“…Duplicates were removed using End-Note, and 39 particular studies were chosen for a full-text review. Based on the eligibility criteria, 23 studies were omitted for explanations as stated in Figure 1, and 16 articles were chosen to be included in the meta-analysis of this study [23][24][25][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] (Fig. 1).…”

“…Data were collected from 16 RCTs involving 842 patients, with 418 in the KT group and 424 in the control group. Eight studies were conducted on TKA cases 23,34,37,38,40-42,45 , 7 studies focused on ACLR cases 24,25,33,35,39,43,44 , and 1 study included patients undergoing IKA for meniscal repair, meniscectomy, or ligament repair 36 .…”

“…The mean age of participants in TKA studies ranges from 65.4 to 68.1, with a male sex participant rate of under 80%. Four studies added sham taping to routine physiotherapy in the control group 24,34,36,45 , whereas the other 12 control groups underwent routine physiotherapy without any additional taping treatment. Figure 4 provides a subgroup analysis depicting the variation in knee flexion ROM through pooled analysis.…”