Taping in Physiotherapy - PFYZ139C

• Title: Taping in Physiotherapy
• Guaranteed by: Department of Physiotherapy (51-300400)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 14 [hours]
• Capacity: 0 / 0 (0)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Lenka Žáková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PaedDr. Dagmar Pavlů, CSc.; PhDr. Lenka Žáková, Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : PFYZ038C
• In complex incompatibility with: PFYZ219C

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (06.09.2019)

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with various approaches to taping techniques, their goals and effects, indications and contraindications, followed by current research results in view of taping effect. The aim of practical training is to acquire skills in the application of selected taping techniques on various parts of the movement system.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (19.09.2020)

Learning Outcomes:

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge, skills and general competencies so that after the completion of the course the students:

• demonstrate an understanding of the principles of selected tapping techniques

• demonstrate understanding of indications and contraindications of tapping techniques

• demonstrate awareness of an overview of studies dealing with tapping techniques in the spirit of EBM

• demonstrate the ability to apply selected tapping techniques

• demonstrate the ability to evaluate the effect after tape application

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (06.09.2019)

GIBBONS, J. The vital shoulder complex: an illustrated guide to assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation. Nutbourne, Chichester: Lotus Publishing, 2019.

KIM, A. Kinesiology taping for rehab and injury prevention: an easy, at-home guide for overcoming common strains, pains and conditions. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, [2016]. ISBN 9781612435534.

MACDONALD, R. Taping Techniques. Philadelphia: Butterworth Heinemann 2004, ISBN 0750641509

MONTAG, H. J., ASMUSSEN, P. D. Funktionelle Verbände am bewegungsapparat. Berlin: Spitta verlag 2003, 204s., ISBN 3-934211-58-5.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (06.09.2019)

Credit Requirements:

• 100% attendance on practicals with participation

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (06.09.2019)

Lectures:

1. History of taping

2. - 4. Types of taping techniques, objectives and effects, indication of contraindications, taping material.

5. Tejping in athletes by injured tissue (ligamentum, muscle, bone)

6. Functional taping and its indication (after surgery, after trauma, degenerative diseases)

7. EBM and taping techniques

Exercises:

1. Immobilization taping for lower limb joints

2. Immobilization taping for upper limb joints

3. Immobilization tapes for the hull

4. Stabilization taping

5. Functional taping to change muscle tone and affect dysfunctional muscle chains

6. - 8. Application of selected kinesiotejping methods

9. Taping according to McConell concept - characteristics, mechanism of action

10. Application of tapes according to McConell for knee joint problems.

11. Application of McConell tapes for shoulder joint problems

12.-13. Application of functional taping with respect to the Brügger concept

14. Current taping techniques

Learning resources

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (19.09.2020)

Study Aids:

• see the „Syllabus“

• in case of distance learning, the ZOOM (MS Teams) online platform with the support of a course in Moodle2, unless otherwise instructed by the teacher

Moodle: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3237