The Comparison of the Effect of Deep and Superficial Heat on Healthy Ankle Joint Position Sense

• Main Authors: Farahnaz Ghaffarinejad (Author), Farzaneh Moslemi Haghighi (Author), Soraya Pirouzi (Author), Shohreh Taghizadeh (Author), Tahereh Motiallah (Author), Nasrin Salehi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Heat therapy is one of the natural treatments that can affect the information transferred by the proprioceptive receptors. Heat has an effect on the conduction velocity of peripheral nerves, but the exact effect of two kinds of deep and superficial heat on the joint position sense is not...