Patients often ask me about the purpose of the colorful tape worn by many athletes on their shoulders, elbows, knees and other areas during competition. Called kinesiology tape, it has become ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Relieving the aches and pains of working out is a challenge for anyone who exercises. This applies to not only to weekend warriors, but professional athletes as well. More athletes are ...

You’ve likely seen athletes decorated in patterns of colorful tape on their knees, shins, quads, and shoulders, and thought, does that really do anything? I was right there with you. That quickly ...

Being an Olympian is physically exhausting. Few people understand that more than Kerri Walsh Jennings, a mother of three who is heading to her fifth Olympics next month in Rio de Janeiro. One of the ...

The days of white athletic tape have, it seems, spooled to an end, making way for a new era marked by color and distinctive shapes. Call it the era of kinesiology therapeutic sports tape. Whether name ...

Athletes are always looking for new innovations that make their days a little less painful. Enter KT Tape, which has developed close ties with Team USA and Olympic athletes heading into the 2016 ...

For years, I’ve viewed kinesiology tape—those brightly colored stripes you see on the legs and shoulders of athletes—as nothing more than snake oil, something people used for show without any real ...