Does kinesiotaping increase knee muscles strength and functional performance?

Isokinetics and Exercise Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 149-155

  Aktas, Gulcan ^a   Baltaci, Gul ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

brace; kinesio taping; Knee; prophylactic; strength

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRACE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; JUMPING; KINESIOTAPING; KNEE BRACE; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PATELLA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 80051965853     PISSN: 09593020     EISSN: 18785913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IES-2011-0408     Document Type: Article

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