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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

前額肌內效貼紮對正常人注意力之影響

Abstract

”Kinesio taping” is a newly developed technique frequently used for the treatment of soft tissue lesions. The Kinesio Tex tape has the skin like elastic property and can be applied with tension at the soft tissue lesion site. This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of ”Kinesio taping” on the attention in normal subjects. In several ways that can be used to assess attention, the well-known Posner paradigm was chosen. This paradigm can assess visual spatial attention by presenting the target participants with cues that direct attention to regions of the visual space within which an imperative stimulus may subsequently appear. The cue can be valid or invalid. After cuing, subjects press the left or right of computer mouse for response to the target participants appearing.Twenty one healthy volunteers (17 males and 4 females) with aged from 21 to 27 years were recruited for this study. All subjects received Posner's attention test with and without taping. The accuracy and the reaction time were analyzed. It was found that under the valid-cue condition, the reaction time was significantly delayed after ”Kinesio taping” (p＜0.05). It was concluded that the tactile effects of ”Kinesio taping” might delay the reaction time under valid-cue condition.

Language

English

First Page

215

Last Page

223

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