15 February 2025 : Clinical Research
Comparative Impact of Kinesio Taping and Post-Isometric Muscle Relaxation on Pain and Myofascial Mechanics in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Tomasz Sipko
ACDEF 1*, Bernadetta Berger-Pasternak ABCDF 1, Adam Paluszak CDEF 1
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.945376
Med Sci Monit 2025; 31:e945376
Table 5 Mean, median, standard deviation, and 95% confidence intervals of relaxation time in the study before (PRE), after (POST), and 1 week after treatment (FOL), on the dominant side (DS) and contralateral side (CS) for the 3 study groups: post-isometric muscle relaxation (PIR), Kinesio taping (KT), and KT placebo (KT-PEBO).
| Dynamic stiffness [N/m] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time/side | Group | Mean | Median | SD | CI −95.0% | CI +95.0% |
| I_DS | PIR | 20.92 | 19.63 | 3.91 | 2.97 | 5.71 |
| I_CS | PIR | 21.65 | 20.48 | 4.13 | 3.14 | 6.03 |
| II_DS | PIR | 21.30 | 20.07 | 3.45 | 2.63 | 5.04 |
| II_CS | PIR | 21.48 | 20.87 | 4.46 | 3.39 | 6.52 |
| III_DS | PIR | 20.46 | 19.02 | 3.46 | 2.63 | 5.05 |
| III_CS | PIR | 20.26 | 19.22 | 3.79 | 2.88 | 5.53 |
| I_DS | KT-PEBO | 20.63 | 20.03 | 3.17 | 2.46 | 4.49 |
| I_CS | KT-PEBO | 20.33 | 19.77 | 3.21 | 2.48 | 4.54 |
| II_DS | KT-PEBO | 19.76 | 19.57 | 2.95 | 2.27 | 4.22 |
| II_CS | KT-PEBO | 20.02 | 19.78 | 3.02 | 2.32 | 4.31 |
| III_DS | KT-PEBO | 19.84 | 19.67 | 3.12 | 2.39 | 4.50 |
| III_CS | KT-PEBO | 19.70 | 19.60 | 3.06 | 2.34 | 4.41 |
| I_DS | KT | 21.22 | 21.83 | 3.22 | 2.46 | 4.64 |
| I_CS | KT | 21.40 | 21.23 | 3.54 | 2.71 | 5.11 |
| II_DS | KT | 19.86 | 20.25 | 3.26 | 2.48 | 4.75 |
| II_CS | KT | 19.80 | 19.52 | 3.30 | 2.51 | 4.82 |
| III_DS | KT | 20.47 | 20.13 | 2.73 | 2.08 | 3.99 |
| III_CS | KT | 19.47 | 18.88 | 3.67 | 2.79 | 5.36 |
| DS – dominant side; CS – contralateral side; PIR – post-isometric relaxation; KT-PEBO – placebo; KT – kinesio taping; SD – standard deviation; CI – confidence interval for SD. | ||||||