Effect of kinesio taping on explosive muscle power of gluteus maximus of male athletes

OBJECTIVE: To determine the short-term effect of kinesio tape on the explosive gluteus maximus power of male athletes, comparing a recommended application pattern with a placebo. METHODS: Sixty healthy university male athletes participated in this double-blinded randomised controlled trial. Those athletes with musculoskeletal injury 6 weeks prior to screening, serious medical condition(s) in the previous 6 months, or metabolic conditions affecting joint integrity were not selected. A different investigator from the one who administered the intervention randomly allocated participants to groups. Allocation was concealed. Group A (n=30) received a recommended Y-strip kinesio tape application and group B (n=30) a neutral placebo application. Height displacement during a counter-movement jump was measured with a reliable Vertec apparatus. Measurements were recorded at baseline, immediately after strapping and 30 minutes later. Participants and raters were blinded to group assignment. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance for repeated measures were used to determine the effect of time and group on the measurements. Post hoc analysis was done using the Tukey’s method. RESULTS: Time (before, immediately after and 30 minutes after taping) had a significant effect on the measurements. All the measurements after intervention (either immediately or 30 minutes after) had significant differences compared with baseline (95% CI [0.59, 2.29] and [1.50, 3.2] respectively.) CONCLUSION: The recommended application type of taping with kinesio tape was equally effective in significantly improving the explosive power of the gluteus maximus in male athletes immediately after and 30 minutes after taping in both groups.Hitech Therapy for sponsoring the Kinesio Tex Tape.http://www.journals.co.za/sama/m_sajsm.htm

Modeling the auditory pathway

There has been much work done to further the knowledge of disorders that affect the auditory pathway. However, current methods of inducing disorders in test animals is very limited. It cannot be done on a neuron by neuron basis, and problems might arise when generalizing results from test animals to humans. The purpose of this work is to address this lack of precision found in the research of the auditory pathway. This work begins to address a solution to this problem by starting to build a complete computational model of the auditory pathway using previously published models. Specifically, a phenomenological model for auditory neurons and a computational model for spherical bushy cells, that were developed independent of each other, were combined into one simulation. The hope of better understanding how disorders affect the auditory pathway is achieved by changing parameters within the models and comparing the outputs. Through experiments that vary parameters from their published values, failure points for parameters are established. Whether those failure points are indicate the useful range of the model or show the failure point of an actual neuron is not conclusive at this point. If it does represent the failure of a neuron, then that would be a useful boundary condition that treatments would need to overcome

Onderrigbegeleiding van beginneronderwysers

Tesis (M. Ed.) -- Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 1992.Een kopie mikrofiche.Full text to be digitised and attached to bibliographic record

Author Correction: CHD3 helicase domain mutations cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome with macrocephaly and impaired speech and language

The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Laurence Faivre, which was incorrectly given as Laurence Faive. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article