A new study came out evaluating the effectiveness of ankle taping on soccer players.
The results are not supportive of taping; at the end of 45 min, the range of motion of the ankle had actually increased over the baseline testing, even while wearing the tape. Since taping is meant to reduce motion of a joint, this is not encouraging.
For those of us that use preventative taping of athletes as a means to support the ankle, we may want to consider bracing instead. It is also important to note that this study was evaluating taping and not the effect of preventative exercises on increasing ankle stability to decrease the risk of injury. Our efforts may be better spent focusing more effort on preventative neuromuscular and proprioceptive strengthening rather than prophylactic taping.
http://cjsmblog.com/2014/02/22/the-effectiveness-of-ankle-taping/
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