NCT05971316

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Murcia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Athletics Injury
• Sports Physical Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Foam Roller	General Warm-up + Foam Roller

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-20
• Primary completion: 2023-02-02
• Completion: 2023-03-15
• First posted: 2023-08-02
• Last updated: 2023-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain