School of Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.
Department of Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA.
Sports Biomech. 2020 Jun;19(3):395-410. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2018.1493743. Epub 2018 Jul 23.
Lateral ankle sprains (LAS) are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries and as a response, clinicians often use external ankle taping prophylactically to reduce the prevalence of injuries. External ankle taping techniques have been shown to significantly reduce passive ankle range of motion; however, there is limited research on the effects of external ankle taping on lower extremity kinematics or kinetics during sport specific tasks. Therefore, our objective was to compare the effects of external ankle taping on ankle, knee and hip kinematics and kinetics compared to no taping during an anticipated sidestep cutting task and a straight sprint task. We conducted a cross-over laboratory study with 16 healthy males. Three-dimensional kinematics and kinetics were collected with a motion capture system and in-ground force plate during 5 trials of a sprint and anticipated side-step cut with or without external ankle taping. Group means and associated 90% confidence intervals were plotted across 100 data points for each task, significance being identified when the confidence intervals did not overlap for three consecutive data points. No significant kinetic or kinematic differences were identified between conditions for the tasks. External ankle taping does not influence lower extremity biomechanics during a control cutting task.
外侧踝关节扭伤（LAS）是最常见的肌肉骨骼损伤之一，作为一种反应，临床医生通常使用外部踝关节贴扎术进行预防性治疗，以降低损伤的发生率。外部踝关节贴扎技术已被证明可显著减少被动踝关节活动范围；然而，关于外部踝关节贴扎对运动专项任务中下肢运动学或动力学的影响的研究有限。因此，我们的目的是比较在预期侧步切割任务和直线冲刺任务中，与不贴扎相比，外部踝关节贴扎对踝关节、膝关节和髋关节运动学和动力学的影响。我们进行了一项交叉实验室研究，共有 16 名健康男性参与。在 5 次冲刺和预期侧步切割试验中，使用运动捕捉系统和地面测力板收集三维运动学和动力学数据，同时使用或不使用外部踝关节贴扎。在每个任务的 100 个数据点中绘制了组平均值和相关的 90%置信区间，当连续三个数据点的置信区间不重叠时，即可确定显著性。在任务中，条件之间没有发现明显的动力学或运动学差异。外部踝关节贴扎不会影响控制切割任务中的下肢生物力学。
