Effect of Kinesio Tape on Pain, Muscle Strength, Functionality and Kinesiophobia in Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

"As exercise training, joint range of motion, flexion and abduction external cycle will be practiced with the gymnasts.~Circumference measurements will be taken for shoulder bone swelling and for atrophy.~Shoulder joint mobilizations will be applied (posterior cutting for flexion limitation, downward shifting and scapular mobilizations for abduction limitation).~Flexion and abduction will be stretched externally. Friction massage will be applied. Strengthening exercises for flexion, abduction and external rotation in the lower and upper segments of the shoulder with dumbbells and theraband, shoulder wheel and finger ladder will be practiced.~Codman exercises and staff exercises will be practiced."

Kinesio tape will be applied with 0 tension at the starting point when the arm is in a relaxed position and will be slightly heated. Since the deltoid muscle is a three-headed muscle, it will be applied with 0 tension in the flexed position at the elbow, for the front part, the arm with the elbow in full extension, and for the middle part of the deltoid, the I tape will be applied along the muscle without applying tension.

The Y-shaped kinesio tape will be placed on the deltoid muscle with inhibition and mechanical correction technique, and the Y-shaped kinesio tape will be placed on the supraspinatus muscle with inhibition technique, 3 cm below the humerus tuberculum deltoidea without tension. The Y tape will be applied along the outer edge of the anterior deltoid of the forearm with 15-25% light tension, and the posterior arm will be applied along the outer edge of the posterior deltoid with 15-25% light tension up to the lateral acromion. The last 3-5 cm of the tails will be applied to their permanent locations without tension. The shoulder will be held in maximum transverse extension and external rotation for the forearm of the Y support, and in 45 degrees transverse flexion and horizontal adduction for the posterior arm of the Y support. In addition, ultrasound, electrotherapy and cold application will be applied to the participants depending on their tolerance.