Kinesiology Taping for Respiratory, Oral Motor, and Speech Related Issues

Kinesiology tape has been utilized since the 1970s by many healthcare and sports medicine professionals. While often thought of as a treatment for athletes, kinesiology taping is very versatile to address the needs of a wide variety of patient populations. This modality supplements, and as needed, replaces your handling and prompting to improve the functioning of clients both during and after sessions. Augment your current treatment techniques to advance your practice and better serve your clients' needs.

This course will empower participants to integrate kinesiology tape into their practice with clients from pediatricsto older adults. After a review of the background information and principles of taping, this course will provide "tape along with the instructor" lab practices. Participants will learn to safely and effectively apply therapeutic tape to improve outcomes related to oral motor skills, respiration, and speech. Participants will leave with effective evidence-based kinesiology taping strategies to integrate into their toolbox thenext day, in person or via telehealth to improve therapeuticoutcomes.

The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0- 12.

Highlights

• Kinesiology taping applications to effectively treat issues outside of the traditional including respiration, articulation, feeding, bruxism, drooling
• Hands-on labs to practice and review taping principles which you can safely and effectively usethe next day

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists