Effect of Dynamic Taping on Jumpers’s Knee among Basket Ballplayers: Parallelarmtrial Study

BACKGROUND: Jumper’s knee is also called Patellar tendinopathy, which is most common in athletes, caused by repetitive jumping activities in sports and the prevalence of jumper’s knee 25% to 32% in basketball. In Patellar tendinopathy pain will present over the anterior or inferior of knee. Dynamic tape is also called biomechanical tape it’s used as a mechanical resistance which reduce the load on tendon, the tape is also four directions stretch with resistance and recoil (stretch is more than 200%) with no rigid end There are many managements and treatment are available for patellar tendinopathy. In this study will gives effective treatment protocol in jumper’s knee among basketball players. OBJECTIVE: To analyses the effects of dynamic taping on jumper’s knee in basketball players and usage of dynamic tape to achieve the reduction of pain. METHODS: The total participants are 60 and participants are divided into two group. There are Group A and Group B. Group A was treated by dynamic tape and Group B was treated by ultrasound therapy and stretching. This treatment is given for the 2 weeks and after that using outcome measure the data analysis was done. CONCLUSION: In this study shows that Dynamic tape and Ultrasoundtherapy & stretching is significantly effective in the management of jumper’s knee. In comparison between dynamic tape and UST+ Stretching, the dynamic tape has more significant effect and useful technique for treating jumper’s knee. KEY WORDS: jumper’s knee, dynamic tapping, patellar tendinopathy, ultrasound therapy and stretching.