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

NCT ID: NCT05971316

Last Updated: 2023-08-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 22 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-09-20
• Study Completion Date: 2023-03-15

Brief 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

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Warm-up + Foam Roller

General Warm-up + Warm-up with Foam Roller

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Foam Roller

Intervention Type: DEVICE

General Warm-up + Foam Roller

Warm-up Only

General Warm-up only

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Foam Roller

General Warm-up + Foam Roller

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universidad de Murcia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Javier Reina Abellan

Director

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Daniel Casado

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Locations

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Murcia, Murica, Spain

Countries

Spain

References

Casado D, Nacher I, Pardo J, Reina J. Effectiveness of a Foam Roller Warm-Up in Professional Basketball Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2025 Jan 1;20(1):15-29. doi: 10.26603/001c.127266. eCollection 2025.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 39758693 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

Universidad Católica de Murcia

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id