American Fork, UT – KT Tape®, the chief in sports activities associated drug-free ache and harm aid via using their superior restoration merchandise, is revolutionizing the child care trade by combining their acknowledged kinesiology tape with normal disposable diapers.
A child, proven right here carrying a standard disposable diaper with out kinesiology tape to assist assist pelvic and belly muscle and gentle tissue, who’s unable keep an applicable upright posture
“The disposable diaper is a tremendous product that folks and different caregivers of younger youngsters rely on,” KT Tape® CEO Jessica Klodnicki defined. “However there hasn’t been a design improve because the introduction of a super-absorbent polymer to the crotch in 1984.”
The brand new diapers from KT Tape® will make the most of the identical “raise and lock” expertise that makes their common line of kinesiology tapes so efficient. In response to Klodnicki, there may be the potential for vital medical profit along with the established comfort of contemporary disposable diapers. “Our KT Diapers® will gently, however powerfully, raise the pores and skin and subcutaneous tissue within the pelvis and decrease stomach, bettering blood movement and lymphatic drainage and serving to to scale back fussiness from gasoline, constipation, and colic.”
Serving to to allow athletes and health lovers to carry out at their finest has at all times been a elementary guideline of the KT Tape® philosophy. With the introduction of KT Diapers®, this aim of improved consolation and performance hasn’t modified. They are going to be distributed to caregivers, medical professionals, and daycare facilities via main retailers, specialty child shops, and medical provide distributors worldwide.
“These diapers are constructed for efficiency,” KT Tape® Product Design Director Lucinda Crepe defined. “Sure, they will assist these infants really feel higher, perform higher, and possibly begin strolling sooner than children utilizing typical diapers, however they’re additionally going to take in a number of urine and feces so {that a} child can reliably do their enterprise with out concern of leaks or blowouts.”
KT Diapers® are designed to be utilized to an toddler’s pores and skin by caregivers with out particular coaching. However so as to obtain most profit, Crepe revealed that some coaching can be obligatory. “Looking for out a completely licensed kinesiology taping practitioner for each diaper change isn’t sensible. We do suggest that caregivers bear KT Diaper® particular coaching on our web site so as to keep away from accidents, nonetheless. And for a small annual payment, anybody who adjustments diapers often can receive a full certification that can give them the boldness to coach others and even cost for the service.”
Tossing out the diaper stuffed with nonsense
We’ve mentioned so-called kinesiology tape just a few occasions on SBM through the years, most lately in a severe 2023 publish by Scott Gavura on implausible claims involving improved cell oxygenation and sports activities efficiency. Method again within the Earlier than Instances of 2018, I additionally mentioned a really actual research that investigated the affect of kinesiology tape shade on athletic efficiency. Be at liberty to learn it, although I doubt you can be shocked to study that tape shade doesn’t matter or that the authors nonetheless known as for extra analysis no matter that truth.
Kinesiology tape is simply stretchy tape that lightly lifts the pores and skin. Within the few years which have handed since my 2018 publish, no proof has come to gentle that counters my evaluation on the time:
Although these merchandise are common, the reasons given by proponents are extremely implausible and the proof up to now is resoundingly unfavorable. The particular patterns, which proponents imagine present a novel profit, are irrelevant. KT seems to be only a costlier equal to the old school athletic tape historically used to assist stabilize a joint or to supply compression bandaging to scale back swelling after an acute harm.
With regards to ache aid or athletic efficiency, there could also be a non-specific profit that comes from expectation or, as has been skillfully argued* by our personal (sadly now not) Paul Ingraham, the applying of a novel sensory enter. So kinesiology taping may function both a easy distraction from discomfort or a much less spectacular model of Dumbo’s magic feather, however there is no such thing as a proof to assist profit from distinctive “biomechanical tuning”. This might clarify why perceived advantages are typically transient as novel sensations shortly attenuate when repeatedly utilized to the pores and skin.
* https://www.painscience.com/articles/kinesio-taping.php
My earlier publish ought to have been satire however was about an precise research designed and carried out by actual scientists. My publish at this time, nonetheless, clearly is satire however is predicated on very actual claims made by proponents/believers in kinesiology tape. And to be sincere, I’m form of shocked that someone hasn’t tried to promote a kinesiology diaper but.
This might be a logical subsequent step that’s no sillier than selling tape to assist cells suck up extra oxygen and enhance muscle perform. And fogeys of younger infants are a inhabitants typically determined for something that may assist with a fussy child and thus primed to half methods with a great deal of money. What do you say? Any potential angel traders on the market? Let’s do that!