elastic therapeutic tape

A 2012 systematic review found that the efficacy of elastic therapeutic tape in pain relief was trivial given that no studies found clinically important results.

Elastic therapeutic tape, is an elastic cotton strip with an acrylic adhesive that is used for treating athletic injuries and a variety of physical disorders.

Some of the proposed benefits of elastic therapeutic tape include proprioceptive facilitation, muscle facilitation, reduced muscle fatigue, reduced delayed-onset muscle soreness, pain inhibition, and enhanced healing such as reduced edema, improvement of lymphatic drainage and blood flow.