Questions for Balki et al, 2016. Kinesio taping as a treatment method in the acute phase of ACL reconstruction: A double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
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Can they really claim the patients were blinded?
Can you replicate their treatment from the description?
Are they lymph tapes?
Full text https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197419/
Yes, fan bases would have been better to start proximal. And there's another reason they are not true lymph-tapes.