Effectiveness of a Warm-Up With Foam Roller in Professional Basketball Players

Universidad de Murcia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sports Physical Therapy; Athletics Injury

Treatments: Device: Foam Roller

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05971316

Universidad Católica de Murcia

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of a foam roller warm-up on sports performance in professional basketball players.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

Warm-up + Foam Roller

Experimental group

Description:

General Warm-up + Warm-up with Foam Roller

Treatment:

Device: Foam Roller

Warm-up Only

No Intervention group

Description:

General Warm-up only