Effects of Caffeinated Gum on a Basketball-specific Tests in Basketball Players

Chih-Hui Chiu

Status

Completed

Conditions

Caffeine

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: caffeine gum

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06016985

112-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigated the effects of chewing 3 mg/kg of caffeinated gum on basketball free throw accuracy and basketball -specific performance. Fifteen trained basketball players with at least a top 8 national ranking were recruited to be participants in this study. After 2 simulation tests to familiarize the experimental procedure, we employed a double blind, randomized crossover design to divide participants into caffeine trial (CAF) and placebo trial (PL). The CAF trial chewed caffeine gum containing 3 mg/kg for 10 minutes, whereas the PL trial chewed a placebo gum without caffeine. After 15 minutes rest, the stationary free throw shooting test, countermovement jump, t-test, 20-meter segmented dash test, squat in the flywheel device and running based anaerobic sprint test were conducted.

Enrollment

14 patients

Sex

Male

Ages

20 to 30 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

6 years of professional basketball training and with at least a top 8 national ranking
6 months of continuous training,
3 months of recovery from sports injuries such as strains and sprains.

Exclusion criteria

Non-specialized basketball players.
has not trained regularly for the past 6 months.
has recovered from from a sports injury for less than 3 months, or had epilepsy, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, brain injury, or a history of caffeine allergy.
Subjects with previous caffeine allergy response.