Abstract
Knee sport taping is frequently used to protect the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-injured knee in sport athlete. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sport taping for ACL injured knee on knee stiffness. In 10 young people with intact knees, anterior tibial translation were recorded at four anterior drawer loads (44, 66, 88, 132N) under two conditions (with or without knee sport taping) using knee arthrometer. The results showed that the sport taping limited the anterior tibial translation compared to without taping. However, the efficacy of taping was deteriorated by light exercise such as walking.
