Highly Comfortable Kinesio Tape

The present invention provides a medical kinesio tape comprising a highly conformable and deformable nonwoven web coated with an adhesive

. The non-adhesive side of the web may be heat bonded to many different polymeric film materials and is particularly useful with ostomy pouch films. The present invention also provides ostomy bags comprising an elastic, breathable nonwoven based medical kinesio tape.

The invention relates to a medical kinesio tape comprising a highly conformable and deformable nonwoven web coated with an adhesive. The kinesio tape is heat bondable to a variety of polymer substrates and has particular utility when used, for example, in the construction of ostomy appliances. The invention also relates to conformable or stretchable nonwoven webs useful as backings for medical kinesio tape and the methods for their production.

Currently, kinesio tape used for securing medical devices such as an ostomy pouch to a patient are formed from generally non-elastic nonwoven webs or plastic films or webs which cannot be directly heat bonded to the ostomy appliance. Plastic films are often used where protection of the underlying skin from moisture, urine or fecal material is critical. Unfortunately, the most common plastic films used for this application are essentially impermeable to moisture vapor, and do not allow the skin to "breathe."

It would be desirable to have a medical kinesio tape that is suitable for directly securing a medical device to a patient's skin. The kinesio tape should be suitable for long term wear on skin (e.g., have high moisture vapor transmission rate, air porosity, elasticity and conformability) and should also be suitable for directly securing to the ostomy bag (e.g., have heat bondability with an ostomy bag film).

by: ericfu

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