1. Immediate effects of Dynamic Tape™ on hip muscle activation and torque and on lower limb kinematics: A randomized controlled clinical trial.
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Malta, Victória M. A. V., Coelho, Ana C. M., Teruyu, Ana I., Silva, Grazielle C. G., Thomazinho, Rafaela G., and Lobato, Daniel F. M.
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LEG physiology , *SKELETAL muscle physiology , *HIP joint physiology , *ATHLETIC tape , *CROSS-sectional method , *T-test (Statistics) , *DATA analysis , *RESEARCH funding , *KINEMATICS , *STATISTICAL sampling , *BLIND experiment , *TORQUE , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *MANN Whitney U Test , *ONE-way analysis of variance , *STATISTICS , *ANTHROPOMETRY , *DATA analysis software , *COMPARATIVE studies , *BODY movement , *MUSCLE contraction - Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the immediate effect of Dynamic TapeTM (DT) on hip muscle activation and torque and on lower limb kinematics. Forty-five healthy, recreationally active women were randomly assigned to three groups: 1) submitted to the application of DT in the active form in the gluteus medius (GMed) muscle (BG; n = 15), 2) submitted to the application of DT in the placebo form in the GMed muscle (PG; n = 15), and 3) not submitted to any intervention (CG; n = 15). Participants were evaluated for GMed and gluteus maximus (GMax) muscle activation in a maximal voluntary isometric contraction, simultaneously with the assessment of the hip abductor and extensor torques, as well as during two functional tasks – single leg squat (SLS) and jump landing + maximum vertical jump (VJ) – simultaneously with a 2-D kinematic assessment of the lower limb. After DT application in BG, there was a significant decrease in the hip abductor time to peak torque (P = 0.004), hip extensor torque (P = 0.02), excursion to hip adduction (P = 0.007), and to knee flexion (P = 0.02) during the SLS, as well as in GMed activation during VJ (P < 0.05). DT was able to reduce GMed activation and modify lower limb torque and kinematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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