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

Effectiveness of a Warm-Up With Foam Roller for 3 Months in Professional Basketball Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

No research data from the participants is currently shared, the results will be published by the researchers of this study in academic journals. In the future, it is not ruled out making our data and results available to interested researchers and possible collaborators who contact specifically the researchers of our study.