The Effects of Balance and Gait on the Treadmill Training in Patients with Hemiplegia Applying Kinesio-Taping and Lumbosacral Orthosis

Effects of Taping on Balance and Gait in Patients With Stroke: A Meta-analysis

“…Eighteen studies [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] with 524 participants were included in this meta-analysis. An RCT by Gill [39] that compared the treatment effects among Kinesio taping, non-elastic taping, and treadmill groups included two separate studies: Kinesio taping vs. conventional therapy and non-elastic taping vs. Eun-Ji Kim, et al treadmill.…”

“…The effect size of the five studies that measured BBS was 0.410 [24,28,[32][33][34], and that of 14 studies that measured TUG [24][25][26][27][28]30,33,34,36,37,[39][40][41] was 0.433. The effect size of the six studies that measured gait speed [24,25,29,31,35,38] was 0.925.…”

“…According to the total taping duration, effect size of six studies classified as immediate [24,25,27,29,35,41] was 0.741, effect size of three studies classified as less than 500 minutes [36,39] was 0.590, effect size of six studies classified as less than 1,000 minutes [26,[31][32][33][34]38] was 0.391, effect size of four studies classified as more than 1,000 minutes was 0.402 [28,30,37,40]. 'Immediate' and 'less than 500 minutes' showed a medium effect size, and 'less' and 'more than 1,000 minutes'…”

“…Because Gill [39]'s study was counted as two separate studies, a total of 12 studies applied Kinesio taping [24][25][26][27][28]31,34,36,37,[39][40][41], and seven studies applied non-elastic taping [29,30,32,33,35,38,39]. The effect size of Kinesio taping (0.555) was similar to that of non-elastic taping (0.484).…”

“…Two studies were classified as hip [32,41] and had an effect size of 0.144. One study was classified as trunk [34] and had an effect size of 0.024. It can be interpreted that both taping methods have a small effect on gait speed and balance.…”