Athletics Injury, Sports Physical Therapy
Conditions
Keywords
Foam Roller, Performance, Warm-Up, Basketball
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of a foam roller warm-up on sports performance in professional basketball players.
Detailed description
Twenty-two professional basketball players, divided into two randomized groups, carried out a specific warm-up for three months with a foam roller. Three measurements were made, pre-intervention, post-intervention at 12 weeks and a four-week follow-up. In these measurements reference data were taken for jumping, ankle dorsiflexion and balance. During this protocol, they performed three series of sixty seconds of application with thirty seconds of rest between series, three days a week and applied to the calf muscles, hamstrings, quadriceps, gluteus and TFL.
Interventions
DEVICEFoam Roller
General Warm-up + Foam Roller
Sponsors
Universidad de Murcia
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Intervention model description
Randomiced Controlled Trial
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 30 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Masculine or feminine * Minimum 18 years and maximum 30 * Professional players * Practice 3 training sessions per week + competition on weekends
Exclusion criteria
* Musculoskeletal injury in the last 3 months * Surgery in the lower extremity in the last year * Present a diagnosed orthopedic or neurological pathology of the lower limb.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Know the effectiveness of a warm-up with a foam roller in proffesional basketball player during 18 weeks on jumping using the Counter Movement Jump, dorsiflexión using the Lung Test and the balance using the Y-Balance Test | Baseline and week 18 | The countermovement jump will obtain the jump height in centimetres, the ankle dorsiflexion in degrees using the Lung test and the distance in centimeters using the Y-Balance test. High scores in any of the tests will lead to a decrease in the risk of injury and an improvement in performance. A first pre-intervention measurement is carried out, another at 14 weeks post-intervention and others at 18 weeks follow-up. This is the general measure. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluate the improvement obtained in the experimental group after a warm-up protocol with foam roller for 14weeks 3 days per week on the Counter Movement Jump, Lung Test and Y-Balance test vs non-intervention group. | Baseline and week 14 | Observe the differences obtained after 14 weeks between the pre-intervention vs post-intervention measurement in the experimental group and in the control group. This is the specific measure. |
| Maintenance of foam roller warm-up adaptations on the Counter Movement Jump, Lung Test and Y-Balance Test after intervention for a 1 month | Week 14 and week 18 | To observe if the differences obtained after 14 weeks of intervention are maintained or not during the following 4 weeks of follow-up, between the post-intervention vs. post-follow-up measurement in the experimental group and in the control group. This is a specific measure |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed