Abstract

Neuromuscular Taping provides passive stretching through the application of a tape with eccentric properties encouraging flexibility and coordination and bettering range of movement in patients suffering with excessive muscle contraction due to different clinical conditions. It has been claimed that the effects may be due to the motor sensory and proprioceptive feedback mechanisms. It has been hypothesized that the application of neuromuscular taping is able to stimulate cutaneous mechanoceptors. These receptors activate nerve impulses when mechanical loads create deformation. Their activation by an adequate stimulus causes local depolarization, which triggers nerve impulse along the afferent fibres travelling toward the central nervous system.