You've probably seen professional athletes wearing colored tape on their backs, shoulders, shins and legs during a recent televised competition and wondered if these crazy-looking tape patterns really ...

Shin splints, officially diagnosed as medial tibial stress syndrome, plague many runners. According to a 2023 research review published in Cureus, runners make up the majority of people who suffer ...

Have you noticed the colorful pieces of tape stuck on athlete’s bodies at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics? These curious additions have been visible for the last few Olympics, and you can spot them on ...

For years, I’ve viewed kinesiology tape—those brightly colored stripes you see on the legs and shoulders of athletes—as nothing more than snake oil, something people used for show without any real ...