BIRGIT KUMBRINK

Birgit Kumbrink's bestselling guide to K Taping - finally available in English! This richly illustrated hands-on guidebook features a highly successful therapeutic approach to treating orthopedic, traumatological and many other conditions. It serves both as a perfect companion to training courses and as a reference book and refresher for health care professionals who have completed their training. A brief introduction to the basic principles of K Taping, the special elastic tapes used and the method's history is followed by 7 chapters highlighting treatment techniques and their application to 50 frequently seen conditions. Each is featured on a double page with up to five color photos, brief instruction, practical information about symptoms, dosage, progress to be expected and tips regarding variations of techniques. As the benefits of K Taping in enhancing the effects of other conservative care and surgical treatments are getting more and more appreciated, Birgit Kumbrink's "K Taping - An Illustrated Guide", developed by Germany based K Taping Academy, has rapidly established itself as the ultimate reference book for therapists and clinicians in an ever expanding range of medical disciplines.

Birgit Kumbrink, directora de la K-Taping Academy desde el año 2000, nos presenta esta guía práctica del metodo K-Taping, una eficaz herramienta para medicos y fisioterapeutas que puede complementar gran variedad de tratamientos.Las vendas elasticas K-tapes pueden aplicarse en cualquier parte del cuerpo, siguen el recorrido de un mºsculo o nervio y no limitan la movilidad del paciente. Gracias a estas caracteristicas poseen mºltiples aplicaciones, desde dolores mºsculo-esqueleticos, inestabilidad articulatoria muscular, migrañas y dolores menstruales hasta terapias linfaticas postoperatorias.Son idoneas tambien para la prevencion y el tratamiento de lesiones deportivas.En este libro encontrara los fundamentos de este metodo y sus tecnicas de aplicacion, acompañados por:-450 ilustraciones en color-50 aplicaciones medicas-esquemas anatomicos-tecnicas presentadas en casos clinicosconsejos practicos adicionalesLa guia ilustrada del K-taping constituye una obra de referencia exhaustiva de esta extraordinaria tecnica y su amplia gama de aplicaciones.