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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sports Physical Therapy; Athletics Injury
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Foam Roller

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 22
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Murica
    • Murcia, Murica, Spain, 30107
      • Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Warm-up + Foam Roller; General Warm-up + Warm-up with Foam Roller	Device: Foam Roller; General Warm-up + Foam Roller
No Intervention: Warm-up Only; General Warm-up only

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.	Baseline and week 18

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.	Baseline and week 14
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	Week 14 and week 18

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Universidad de Murcia
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Daniel Casado, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 20, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 2, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): March 15, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 27, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 24, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 2, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 2, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 24, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Performance; Basketball; Foam Roller; Warm-Up
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Wounds and Injuries; Athletic Injuries
• Other Study ID Numbers: Universidad Católica de Murcia

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: 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.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No