For the treatment of aching joints, often after sports accidents, has proved itself so-called Kinesiologytaping with the help of a water resistant, sticking tape. The tape is stuck about prestretched joints, e.g., elbow. The steady liability of the tape causes a durable movement of the epiderm against the unterskin fabric. - This is to be equated to a bandage fabric massage. By the pressure and the irritation of receptors in the skin are generated endorphin belonging to body which reduce the pain feeling.