The effects of a prophylactic knee brace and two neoprene knee sleeves on the performance of healthy athletes: a crossover randomized controlled trial.

Knee injury is one of the major problems in sports medicine, and the use of prophylactic knee braces is an attempt to reduce the occurrence and/or severity of injuries to the knee joint ligament(s) without inhibiting knee mobility. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of one recent...

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Main Authors: Niyousha Mortaza, Ismail Ebrahimi, Ali Ashraf Jamshidi, Vahid Abdollah, Mohammad Kamali, Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas, Noor Azuan Abu Osman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3503729?pdf=render