The Immediate Effect of Lower Extremity Sport Massage on Dynamic and Static Balance in Collegiate Male Athletes

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1 MSc Student, Department of Health & Sport Medicine, Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Sport Medicine, Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 PhD Student, Department of Health & Sport Medicine, Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Background:
Participation in sports activities always accompany with muscle-skeletal injuries among participations. One of factors that can reduce these injuries is proper balance ability. Maybe one of the factors which can affect to balance is the massage so the purpose of this study is to examine the immediate effect of massage in the lower extremities’ to static and dynamic balance in the collegiate athletic men.
Methodology:
The population of the present study is consisted of all the athletes of 18 to 28 years old of Tehran University. 30 athlete were selected and were randomly divided into control and experimental groups. Experimental group was placed under massage of limb lower for 10 minutes. The measuring of static balance by BESS, dynamic balance by Y test were done then. The paired-T test and independent-T were used to analyze the data (P≤0/05).
Results:
The results showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of balancing tests of BESS and Y in the experimental group after doing massage and using massage led to increased scores (P=0/01)
Conclusion:
The result showed that using massage before competition lead to immediately improvement of static and dynamic balance of athletes. Regarding the study result, can use massage in order to improve balance of athletes and to prevent sports injuries subsequently before the competition.

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