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What are sports strapping tape used for?

Covering the injury with a sports strapping tape is the quickest of all methods to find an ease when the muscles or the tissues get injured. As soon as the tape comes into contact with the injured muscle, it starts showing its action and helps the person in dealing with the instant pain. In many cases these tapes are also known as sports tape or taping tapes. There is a huge demand of these tapes in the market. Looking at these demands a lot of sellers and manufacturers from all over the world sell their products on a global level. With the huge variety in terms of sizes, shapes, colors and qualities, a lot of people get an opportunity to choose tapes as per their convenience.

Depending upon the area of application various tapes have come into existence. Although most of the tapes that are manufactured aim at providing relief at the injured places, the decision of choosing the type or the quality of tape is completely dependent on the level of injury. Just to make it easy for the buyers while they make a choice, there are two basic types of tapes available in the market. One is the elastic strapping tape while the other is the non elastic strapping tape. Since the properties of both the types of the tapes are different, the materials used to make them are also different. Usually the non elastic sports strapping tape are made up of materials like cotton. These cotton strapping tapes are the oldest and the most commonly used of all the types. The main aim of this type of strapping tape is to stabiles the affected and the injured area and hampers its movement completely at the initial level so that it doesn't get hurt anymore. Apart from this, there are cases when the tapes have also been used for preventing any injury from getting relapsed.

The next category of the tapes is the elastic sports strapping tapes. Considering its elasticity, these types of strapping tapes are used at places where the movement doesn't need to be hampered or if the injury is at the flexible parts of the body, i.e. the joints. Just in order to make sure that a little glam can be added up, people get an opportunity to buy these tapes in various colors as well.

Apart from the classification of elastic and non elastic, there are a lot of other platforms as well over which the classification can be done. Also, as per their usability and the area of applications various sub types like sports strapping tapes, physic strapping tapes, athlete strapping tapes etc. are made available in the market.


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