Edited by Zhao Xinhua

When we watch exciting sports games, we always see the athletes with colorful tapes, what is the effect of these tapes? Can we use it in daily sports?

Kinesiology tape is a specially designed blend of nylon and cotton that creates immense stretchability with needed durability. With medical—grade, hypoallergenic adhesive, the tape generally remains intact on the skin for three to five days, in between treatments. In addition, the tape is also water—resistant and designed to ad—here even through showers or sweaty workouts.

Kinesiology tape can be applied in different ways, depending on why it's needed. Generally, red tape is used to promote blood and lymph circula—tion; blue tape is used to relieve pain and eliminate edema; skin tone tape reduces inflammation without drawing attention to it; black tape is often used to enhance proprioception. Typically"I" strips are used to support muscles,tendons, and ligaments. The "X" strip is used when kinesiology tape is needed to cover a large area or cross multiple joints. The tabs of the "X" strip cross over sensitive areas such as the back of your knees or front of your elbows. This strip is com—monly used to facilitate your hamstrings, which cross both your hip joint and the back part of your knee joint.The "Y" strip is used to cross sensitive areas of your body such as behind your knee or in the front of your el—bow. It is also commonly used for applications to control the position of your kneecap as in patellofemoral stress syndrome or a subluxing patella. The "fan" strip can help control swelling of your leg or arm. It is commonly used in lymphedema management or for superficial contu—sions and swelling.

Kinesiology tape not only has excellent performance in sports injury, but also can play a very good auxiliary role in children's rehabilitation training. Children's sali—vation, insufficient muscle strength, high muscle tone,scoliosis, foot valgus, etc., can use Kinesiology tape to assist rehabilitation. However, there are indications and contraindications for Kinesiology tape, which should be used according to doctor's advice.

Medical tape is also a common medical consum—able, it has good air permeability, mainly used to prevent infection and isolate wounds. Medical tape selects non—woven fabric, PE and cotton as the base material, and the medical pressure sensitive adhesive can be coated on the base material.

In addition to the above tapes, we commonly used tape in life are BOPP sealing tape, duct tape, kraft tape,paper tape, fiber tape, PVC tape, PET fiber tape and so on. However, most tapes can not be used when exposed to water. Until Flex Seal released Flex Tape, which broke the technical bottleneck.

Imagine a sudden leak in your plumbing, fish tank,bathtub, or even roof. All you need to do is put Flex Tape on the damage and stop the leak immediately. You can even fix it in the water. Flex Tape can repair a broken pipe, leaking roof, a hanging car bumper, leaking pools,campers, RV’s and even put together a boat that was sawn in half.

Flex Tape is a rubberized watertight tape that fea—tures ultra—strong and extra—thick adhesive design for instantly creating a waterproof seal to bond and seal virtually anything you can fathom. It has a waterproof rubberized design, which proves useful in bonding to surfaces and providing emergency repairs. Flex tape works on almost any surface including metal, acrylic,porcelain, fiberglass, cement, drywall, steel, copper,aluminum, glass, etc. Powerful adhesive with a thick,flexible rubberized backing that conforms to virtually any shape and surface, even underwater. Gets stronger with time and pressure. UV resistant, VOC—free, with—stands extreme temperature and weather conditions.After the application, give the Flex Tape up to 24 hours.Often, this product has no standard curating time.However, it will reach its full maximum hold after about 24 hours. The bond becomes stronger as the Flex Tape sits on the surface.

Small tape can also contain unlimited technology,and widely used in electronics, communication, pack—aging, construction, paper, woodworking, aerospace,automobile, textile, metallurgy, machinery manufac—turing, medical and other industries. Environmental protection and new technology of the tape in the future has a wider market.