Effects of Nonelastic Taping and Dual Task on Kinematics and Kinetics of the Ankle Joint

Table 2

Kinematics and kinetics of barefoot walking and taping walking under different task conditions.

	Barefoot			Taping			value
	None	Naming	Subtraction	None	Naming	Subtraction	Cognitive	Walking condition	Interaction effect
Speed (m/s)	1.24 ± 0.10	1.23 ± 0.08	1.14 ± 0.13	1.27 ± 0.06	1.28 ± 0.11	1.17 ± 0.17	0.003	0.053	0.721
STV (%)	4.55 ± 4.34	5.94 ± 4.37	6.80 ± 4.83	3.79 ± 2.77	3.59 ± 2.90	3.98 ± 2.49	0.130	0.020	0.069
Plantar flexion (IC) (°)	−5.15 ± 3.30	−6.97 ± 3.30	−5.83 ± 1.99	−4.64 ± 3.14	−5.58 ± 2.61	−5.63 ± 3.01	0.008	0.269	0.243
Inversion (IC) (°)	−0.53 ± 5.70	0.23 ± 6.09	0.13 ± 5.99	−1.21 ± 5.35	0.29 ± 4.51	0.26 ± 5.18	0.197	0.899	0.935
Maximal plantar flexion (°)	−10.79 ± 2.78	−12.00 ± 2.62	−11.96 ± 2.57	−10.23 ± 3.15	−10.57 ± 3.15	−11.32 ± 3.93	0.107	0.061	0.375
Maximal inversion (°)	1.91 ± 4.65	1.83 ± 4.67	1.96 ± 3.90	0.04 ± 5.59	0.77 ± 4.82	0.67 ± 5.91	0.623	0.360	0.550
Vertical GRF (N kg^−1)	0.89 ± 0.12	0.86 ± 0.12	0.81 ± 0.13	0.90 ± 0.10	0.97 ± 0.14	0.90 ± 0.16	0.107	0.001	0.013
AP GRF (N kg^−1)	0.19 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.05	0.17 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.03	0.20 ± 0.04	0.18 ± 0.03	0.066	0.306	0.353
ML GRF (N kg^−1)	0.01 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.04	0.01 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.03	0.456	0.168	0.124

Significant differences with . AP, anterior-posterior; GRF, ground reaction force; IC, initial contact; ML, medial-lateral; STV, stride time variability.