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From the Judo area out, we know that the most common site of muscle injury on the Armbeugemuskulatur (M. biceps brachii) and the pectoralis major muscle (M. pectoralis major) extends. Probably it is the extremely high power use at one Gegegnhalten hand lever trek leads to these injuries. Whether and to what extent these findings can be transferred to the JJ is not fully understood. However, it is a good approach for trying to tackle here, and possibly even preventive improve performance. ...

Together with his colleague Dr. Ulrike Aussem (Kronberg), he had to train in the English capital, where 27 July to 12 August for the third time after 1908 and 1948 Summer Olympic Games will be played.

According to Breitenbach, the hosts are trying to get hold of in the summer as many medals. For this reason, not just the athletes are well prepared, but also the caregivers. ...

Already in 2000 became the Managing Director of K-Active, Siegfried Breitenbach, during the Olympic Games in Sydney as a member of the German team, and know as a longtime advisor to the German triathlon team the tape from Japan. The diverse and new opportunities offered by the application of kinesiology tape in the treatment of athletes and patients who shaped his future policies.

During the last years the Kinesiology or K-Active Tape has been taken place more and more. But what is the difference and what are the advantages of the new K-Active Taping, which is established in the sport and also in the general medicine?

Article: Der Ringer 12/2010, 36. Jahrgang
Authors: Dr. Ulrike Aussem, Siegfried Breitenbach
Language: German

What began in Japan almost 30 years ago, covered the sport as a epidemic. But  what is really behind it? What is so special and why it is suited especially for sport?

Article: MedicalSports Network 04-2010
Author: Dr. Thomas Saltzer und Siegfried Breitenbach

Language: English

Coloured tapes in loud colours, so-called "Kinesiology tapes " adorn muscles and reach round joints.

Article: TOUR - Das Radmagazin 03-2010
Language: German

Before sis. Sibylle Seebach-Gutsche, station management neurosurgery, had reported about her personal experiences with the coloured adhesive stripes. "In autumn, 2004 I was a patient in an orthopaedic practise and got on my arthrotisches knee 'blue stripes' glued with the explanation, it is new and would help well." said Sister Sibylle. The result has been amazing: "I suddenly could walk again relatively painless and make my service, without the knee hurt me with every step." She had been so inspired, that she reported to everybody about this experience, whether he wanted to hear it or not. An intensive discussion with the method and attempts followed on „living objects“, namely colleagues. She found a comrade-in-arms in the physiotherapy department of DIAKO and got to know Eva Maria Allaut of the company "mar-med" which distributs Kinesio products. Eva Maria Allaut produced the contact with the umbrella organisation Kinesio-Taping Germany and the best KT-Instructors, which offer regulary courses in the DIAKO since then....

"Meanwhile we have educated about 100 external and internal participants in basic courses and extension courses and have trained them to KT-therapists" discribed sis. Sibylle the 'moving in' of the therapy method in the DIAKO. Among the course participants were orthopaedists, gynecologists, internists, general doctors and neurosurgeons as well as physiotherapists, nurses, carer and masseurs. By now in the DIAKO themselves 50 employees have done the apprenticeship as KT therapist. So the method can be offered to patient and staff as an alternative and accompanying treatment. "By KT we have reached that employees could go on working and didn't call in sick" explained sis. Sibylle. "These results make us proud. Indeed, we are still in the building phase and have to tape a lot, because only who practices a lot and collects experiences, succeeds."

Sr. Sibylle thanked the chairman and the hospital board of directors for the support, "which is granted to us for the construction of a KT training- and therapy centre". Also for many orthodox medical practitioner, Kinesio-Taping is an approved method, said Dr. Jan Peter Braun, medical manager of the DIAKO. Braun was glad about the „impulse which came from the care“ and the chance of the DIAKO, to be able to offer a complete therapy at top of the north, which is in the arrival.

Carolin Weidner, physiotherapist in the DIAKO, spoke during her talk in the Fliednersaal of 95 percent of the cases, where KT has proved as pain-relieving. She showed many photos from the practical use in the DIAKO which reached from long-term headaches through back and knee pains up to the treatment of scars. After the short talk of Carolin Weidner, she had do say goodbye fast: She looks after athlets at the handball world championships which partly swear also on Kinesio-Taping.

Volker Nieves, physiotherapist and Kinesio-Taping-Instructor, reacted to effect and history of the therapy which already began in the beginning of the 70s with Dr. Kenzo Kase. Nieves warned against transfiguring Kinesio as a typ of miracle therapy. Rather it is a good, other treatment complementary method, which supports the selfhealing forces of the body. KT leads to an improvement of the microcirculation and to the pain relief, activates the lymphatic system and supports the joint functions. Patients often reported about a pleasant warm feeling by application of the tapes. Numerous athlets, including Lance Armstrong, Jan Koller and Volker Zerbe already fell back on KT.

Björn Moritz Plötz, houseman Neurosurgery, reported about a clinical study which will begin soon in the DIAKO. Patients after intervertebral disc operations should be split in two big groups: One group does receive Kinesio-Taping in addition to the conventional heat applications and massages, other not. To different times the complaints should be grasped. One may be stretched on the result.

What effect have Kinesiology Tapes? Is it more than a temporary fashion? The invention at least is not new, because the plasters were already developed nearly 30 years ago by Dr. Kenzo Kase and the Japanese enterprise of Nitto Denko.

Article: LEX Laufmagazin 01-2010
Author: Siegfried Breitenbach und Dr. Ulrike Aussem
Language: German

Kase had worked as a doctor of chiropractic for many years in the USA and he has observed that his treatments had often only a short-term success. The patients came again with the same symptoms after a few weeks.

Article: Kassler Zeitung
Author: Sascha Seifert
Language: German

In the following thesis the effectiveness of kinesiology tapes is indicated for the improvement and support of specific motion sequences of handball players.

In Poland, like in many other countries, billiary tract operations outnumber hernia correction or appendectomy. The interventions are being made in every surgical unit in Poland. Usually, abdominal surgery causes variety of dysfunctions, including post-operative paralysis of the alimentary tract, water-electrolyte imbalance and other, related to the underlying disease, anesthesia and co-existing diseases. Post-operative pain, respiratory complications as well as impaired exercise tolerance remain a serious problem for post-abdominal surgery patients.