Application direction of Kinesio tape
A two-inch (5 cm) Kinesio tape (Kinesio Tex Tape, Kinesio Holding Company, Albuquerque, NM) was used in this study, and the stretch tension of the tape was 100%, which means that we stretched the length of the tape from the bottom layer of the self-adhesive paper tear to 140% of the original length of the tape. The taping site was the gastrocnemius muscle, and the taping methods were placebo taping, inhibition taping, and facilitation taping (Fig. Applied direction of Kinesio taping (