How to tape COPD and other lung diseases

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the lungs, characterised by persistent respiratory symptoms and restricted airflow. Common symptoms include shortness of breath, chronic cough, and increased mucus production. The main objectives in managing COPD are to alleviate symptoms, enhance functional capacity, and improve the overall quality of life.

Exploring Kinesiology Tape as a Supportive Therapy for COPD

Kinesiology tape, such as CureTape®, is increasingly being explored as a complementary therapy for managing COPD symptoms. This tape is designed to provide support and stability to muscles and joints while allowing full range of motion. Its potential benefits include:

Improving Respiratory Function: By supporting proper posture and enhancing ventilation.

Facilitating Pulmonary Rehabilitation: As part of a comprehensive treatment plan that includes exercise and behavioral modifications.

Enhancing Comfort and Mobility: By reducing pain and discomfort associated with COPD symptoms.

Although research on kinesiology tape specifically for COPD is limited, its use in other conditions has shown promise in improving muscle function and reducing symptoms. When integrated into a well-rounded treatment strategy, kinesiology tape may contribute to better management of COPD, helping patients breathe easier and improve their quality of life.

COPD Taping in practice

Physiotherapist and Kinesiology taping specialist Peter Willemsen is happy to share his positive experiences with lung patients.

Peter Willemsen is a physiotherapist in both the Rivierenland hospital in Tiel (the Netherlands) and in his own practice in Buren (Physiotherapy De Lage Korn, the Netherlands). One of his specialisations is the treatment of lung patients. CureTape® has been successfully applied by him for years as part of the treatment of various lung diseases.

We would like to let Peter Willemsen talk about his “Chanel Tape”:

“In our hospital’s lung department, we see many COPD patients who come in with an exacerbation (lung attack). Besides dyspnoea (shortness of breath), these people often also report pain around the thorax (chest cavity). This is quite logical since the work of breathing during such an exacerbation (lung attack) is many times higher than in a normal situation. Coughing also causes a much higher load on the respiratory system. The COPD tape with CureTape® actually always ensures that patients experience less pain and therefore also indirectly a reduction in dyspnoea.

I still find it difficult to explain to patients how this happens and how CureTape® works. However, I can tell them that it works!

Just last week, my colleagues in the hospital asked me if I could take a look at a 16-year-old boy who was lying there with double pneumonia. He was short of breath and had a lot of thoracic pain. After I taped him, he could immediately breathe better, had less pain, and could also exert himself better. He noticed an immediate improvement and I taped him several times during his hospital stay. See below how I applied the tape.”