1. Yu-Wei Wang, Blake Johnson, MS, Naira Campbell-Kyureghyan, PhD
THE EFFECT OF K-TAPE ON KNEE FLEXION/EXTENSION PERFORMANCE IN A FATIGUING TASK
Yu-Wei Wang,
Blake Johnson, MS,
Naira Campbell-Kyureghyan, PhD

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INTRODUCTION
Current claims are helps people prevent and recover form muscular injury.
Studies are starting to investigate performance enhancement but research lacks in area of delaying fatigue.
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METHODS
14 male subjects perform knee flexion / extension fatiguing tasks.
Day 1 both legs did not have K-Tape, day 2 right leg had K- Tape applied.
Muscle oxygenation and time to fatigue was collected.

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5. RESULT AND DISCUSSION (1/3)
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RESULT AND DISCUSSION (1/3)

6. RESULT AND DISCUSSION(2/3)

7. RESULT AND DISCUSSION(3/3)

8. CONCLUSSION
No evidence in this research present that K-Tape delayed the TTF and enhanced the performance
Muscle oxygenation levels increase in some subject’s K-Tape leg implied that could caused by “learning effect”
Individual enhancement could be due to “placebo effect”

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QUESTIONS?