Background: Muscle strength and proprioception deficits have been recognized in knee OA. Indirect evidence suggests that muscle strength and proprioception deficits may be interrelated. However, these relationships have never been clearly evaluated. Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate relationships between Proprioception deficits and onset of muscle activities during sit to stand i...

Abstract Background Whether vastus medialis obliquus atrophy exists in patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome and whether the amount of differs between lateralis muscles remain unknown. Materials From June 2016 to March 2019, 61 were retrospectively included study group, an age-, sex-, body mass index-matched cohort normal knees was randomly selected as control group. All enrolled subjects ...

the purpose of this study was the comparison of neural and performance adaptations to plyometric training versus combined training. 22 young soccer players (age 14.28±0.82 years, weight 41.18±7.5 kg, height 154.5±9.36, body fat 7.43±2.68%) were randomly assigned to plyometric group (plyometric and soccer skills training, pl) (n=8), combined group (combined plyometric and sprint and soccer skill...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Loss of knee extension and a deficit in quadriceps strength are frequently found following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the addition of Eletromyographic Biofeedback (EMG BFB) therapy for the vastus medialis muscle to the in the early phase of the standard rehabilitation programme could improve the rang...