Effect of the kinesio-taping on female college students during the stop-jump task post-fatigue

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Kinesio taping (KT) on female college students by fatigue intervention, on stop-jump task. Eleven female athletes served as subject. Two force plates and ten cameras were synchronized to capture the stop-jump task. The kinematics results found that the peak hip flexion angular velocity reduced after taping. We found smaller peak anterior-posterior and vertical force, vertical loading rate and vertical impulse within 50 ms after taping at kinetics results, and the time to peak anterior-posterior force delayed after taping. It concluded that KT can decrease the load in landing on knee whether fatigue or not, but has no acute effect on enhancing performance. We recommend that KT be applied on intense exercises with repeated jumping.