Effects of Bandaging and Kinesiotaping® in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty

"The bandages were wrapped circularly along the extremity from the toes to the groin, drawing an 8 at the ankle with a 50% overlap rate, starting with 80% tension and decreasing the pressure proximally."

Short tension bandage application was started on postoperative day 1 following the removal of the drains. According to the width of the extremity, using short tension bandages of 6, 8 and 10 cm width, starting from the sole of the foot, the first layer was wrapped circularly with 50% overlapping rate, 80% tension, and wrapped from the sole of the foot to the groin.

Kinesio taping was applied in the form of a fan by cutting into 4 longitudinal pieces using the lymphatic correction technique with 15-20% tension, starting from the periphery of the inguinal lymph nodes on the medial, anterior and lateral of the leg, following the removal of the drains from the 1st post-op day.