An above-knee compression garment does not improve passive knee joint position sense in healthy adults.

We determined the effects of wearing an above-knee compression garment (CG) on knee joint position sense. Healthy young adults (n = 24, age = 27.46 ± 4.65 years) performed a passive knee position-matching task on an isokinetic dynamometer with each leg separately. We determined the magnitude of comp...

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Main Authors: János Négyesi, Ali Mobark, Li Yin Zhang, Tibor Hortobagyi, Ryoichi Nagatomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6122810?pdf=render