EFFECTS OF KINESIOTAPE ON NECK PAIN. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract

Introduction: neck pain is the fourth leading cause of disability in the world. Its annual prevalence rate is around 37.2 %. Kinesio tape (KT) has become one of the most widely used treatments in the last 20 years. Nowadays, the use of KT for neck pain is still very common and to date a significant number of reviews have been published on the efficacy of this technique in different structures, but new evidence found on neck pain is unknown. Objective:
or evaluates the effects that KT can produce on neck pain. Material and method: a review of the scientific literature was carried out through a systematic search in March 2021 in the following databases: PubMed, Cinahl and Scopus. Results: fourteen RCTs from the last five years were included. The main variable evaluated was neck pain.
only six studies had positive results from it. The methodological quality was assessed with the Jadad scale, with a mean score of three points and the risks of bias according to the Cochrane Handbook were significant. Conclusion: the application of KT in cervical pain would have few positive effects on it. However, in the case of myofascial pain syndrome, it might be thought that this treatment could have positive effects. Even so, we find several limitations that can affect its results, such as encompassing different pathologies under the same symptoms or ha-ving different dosages in the treatments.