Functional properties of adhesive ankle taping: Neuromuscular and mechanical effects before and after exercise

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 238-245

  Alt, Wilfried ^a,b   Lohrer, Heinz ^b   Gollhofer, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Inst of Sports Med Frankfurt/Main   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STABILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032899420     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107110079902000406     Document Type: Article

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