Sports Injury Management and Taping for Complete Beginners

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Taping for All - Newbie Guide to Sports Injury Management, Taping and First AidAre you a Sports Coach?A Personal Trainer?A parent with sporty kids?A professional or amateur athlete?An inspiring physiotherapist?Clueless on taping or how to deal with a sports injury on your own?Then this course is for you!What is Kinesiology Taping?Kinesiology Tape is used to sports and relieve pain in muscles, joints and/or ligaments. It holds properties that support the reduction of swelling and it also aids recovery and mobility. This is a tape that has been around for ages. Initially, when it came onto the market people thought it was a complete gimmick. How can tape make such a big difference to an injury or bruising?However, a tape that's been around for over 40 years can't be a gimmick -- it definitely works. If you've watched any major sporting event, you will find at least one athlete covered in a spider web tape of blue or pink or black. Top athletes use it to aid recovery, and so can you.Here are some of the following brands of taping that I recommend:MX TapeClub Physio TapeK60 d3 - HiTech TherapyBSNKinesio TexIf you look closely at a piece of kinesiology tape, you will see that some sections have glue and other sections don't have glue. These are done in wave patterns. The idea of kinesiology is to lift the skin every so slightly so that the body can do its own healing process. Injuries cause compression on your blood vessels, lymph and nervous system which limits the body from healing itself. The kinesiology tape relieves the compression to cascade the healing process.There are many methods used to activate this correctly, with many different taping techniques and patterns. In our Sports Injury Management and Taping for Complete Beginners Course, you will be taught exactly what