Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Nea International for supporting the study with patellar straps and BSN medical with the sports and kinesio tape, and ProRalph for the loan of the decline board. We
would further like to thank Roy Stewart and Judith Vonk for their assistance with the statistics and the following students for their assistance with the measurements: Peter van Bemmel, Simone
Munk, Jelger Rietveld, and Sandra Timmerman.Most importantly,we would like to thank our participants for participating in this study.