Muscular and functional performance characteristics of individuals wearing prophylactic knee braces.

摘要: The efficacy of prophylactic knee bracing has been refuted with regard to reducing the incidence and/or severity injuries joint. This is thought be a result brace's ineffectiveness in protecting joint from valgus loads. Furthermore, discrepancies exist regarding detrimental effect on functional performance. purpose this study was measure brace selected isokinetic muscular characteristics and forward sprint speed. Twenty physically active, healthy, male college students no prior history use participated study. subjects were randomly tested both without worn various performance parameters. dependent measures assessed included peak torque (PT) acceleration energy (TAE) at 60 240 degrees /s. A 40-yard assess paired t-test analysis revealed mean values which significantly less for PT /s (p .05) suggests that wearing may consequently inhibit athlete, but specific population yet studied.