kINESIOTAPING ON PATIENT'S FUNCTIONAL STATUS IN NON-SPECIFIC NECK PAIN

The objective of the study is to find the effectiveness of kinesiotaping on the patient\'s functional status in non-specific neck pain. This is an RCT in which 26 participants with non-specific neck pain who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were included in the study. Individuals were randomly allocated into two groups (control and experimental) by using a sealed envelope method. The treatment protocol given to the experimental group includes kinesiotaping on upper trapezius muscle using inhibition technique (I-O) along with exercise therapy while in the control group exercise therapy was given alone. Data was collected by using NPRS and NDI. Pre and post assessment was taken on 1 st, 2nd, and 3rd sessions, and each session was 3 days apart. Parametric tests including independent T-test and paired T-test were applied for analyzing normal data. while non-parametric tests including Mann Whitney and Wilcoxon were applied for nonnormal data analysis.