Can we infer about the effects of KT in low back pain?

摘要

The article entitled "Kinesio Taping for chronic low back pain: A systematic review" (Nelson, 2016), is a systematic review that investigates the effects of Kinesio Taping (KT) on subjects with chronic low back pain. Few high quality studies have investigated the effect of KT on low back pain, and this one found 10 studies and selected 5 of those. With just five studies, can we infer about the effects of KT on low back pain? Two other reviews on this same topic have already been carried out (Frez et al., 2014; Trobec and Persolja, 2017), and on PROSPERO (International prospective register of systematic reviews) we found four other systematic reviews in progress beside the Nelson (2016) review. It is important that the clinical reasoning is considered on the systematic reviews, because some taping applications just do not appear to make sense.