Glutes / Buttocks

Getting Ready to Tape

This application is commonly used when learning how to KT tape glute muscles for support during movement or recovery from glute pain. Proper KT Tape instructions for gluteus applications focus on maintaining mobility while reducing strain on surrounding structures such as the hip flexor and hamstrings. This approach can be helpful when managing buttock pain or hip-related movement limitations.

How to Use KT Tape: Glutes / Buttocks

The gluteus muscles are the three main muscles that make up the buttocks. These muscles rotate the hip to the outside, extend the trunk of the body, and perform movements such as the squat and lunge. The gluteus muscles’ role in extending the legs is extended to stabilizing our core as we stand or move and providing a cushion as we sit. Various conditions can cause pain, and this KT Tape application can help to provide relief from it*.

This KT Tape application for buttocks is designed to show how to apply KT Tape to buttocks and how to use KT Tape on glutes, including the powerful gluteus maximus and deep stabilizers like the piriformis muscle for better hip and core support.

If you’re curious about the performance side of strong glutes, you can also read whether tight buttocks run faster for more context on glute strength and speed.

Common Causes of glute pain

Causes include sitting for long periods of time (atrophy and pressure), strains from over-activity, injuries affecting the lower back or hamstrings, or any number of activities or injuries that can make any position or activity painful. Overuse from explosive movements, heavy lifting, or repeated squats and lunges that lift buttocks can also strain the gluteus muscles and hip flexor region.

Common symptoms associated with glute and buttock pain

Pain can be caused by a number of different factors including knots in the muscles, inflammation of muscle attachments, inflammation of bursas, lower back problems, hamstring tightness or overactivity, or referred pain from the spine. Some people also feel radiating discomfort toward the hip flexor or deep piriformis muscle, especially when sitting, running, or climbing stairs, which can make glute and buttocks pain more persistent.

How KT Tape can help reduce glute pain and Support the Hip

KT Tape can help reduce pain and inflammation for many common injuries*. These functions help to reduce pain and prevent compensation injuries – injuries that arise from abnormal movement due to existing pain*. Rest, massage, and strength training have also been shown to reverse the atrophic effects of sitting too long or inactivity and pressure. And though gluteus issues can be a real pain in the butt, KT Tape can help to relieve the pain and get you moving again*.

Using KT Tape for glutes and KT Tape for buttocks provides targeted athletic tape support that can stabilize the gluteus muscles while allowing full motion. This KT Tape buttocks application gives you a simple taping technique you can repeat at home whenever you need extra support.

For more guidance on building strong, resilient glutes, check out our article on addressing weak buttocks as part of your long-term recovery and performance plan.

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