The Effect of 6 Weeks Short Foot Exercise on Balance, Sprinting Time, Toe Gripping Force and Force Area among Collegiate Basketball Players

Yap, Xiao Tong (2022) The Effect of 6 Weeks Short Foot Exercise on Balance, Sprinting Time, Toe Gripping Force and Force Area among Collegiate Basketball Players. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 6 weeks of short foot exercise on balance, sprinting performance , toe gripping force and toe area among collegiate basketball team players. A total of 23 male experienced collegiate basketball players with age 20.64 ± 1.21 years old (Experimental Group) and 20.25 ± 1.16 years old (Control Group) ;heigh index 173.56 ± 5.12 cm (Experimental Group) , 177.28 ± 7.23 cm (Control Group); weigh index 67.91±7.04 kg (Experimental Group), 69.05 ± 8.17 kg (Control Group) ; years of playing basketball 7.91 ± 2.12 years (Experimental Group), 8.92 ± 2.81 years (Control Group) with training frequency 2.64 ± 0.5 (Experimental Group) 2.75 ± 0.43 (Control Group) were participate in this study. They were randomly assigned to a short foot exercise group ( Experimental Group ) of 11 subjects and a control group of 12 subjects. Participants underwent 3 experimental trials to determine the effects of short foot exercise on improving the intrinsic foot muscle on dynamic balance, sprinting performance and toe gripping force and foot area. The intervention in the experiment was implemented for 10 mins per time, three times per week for 6 weeks in total. Results indicate that there were no significant difference in mSEBT, Toe Gripping Force and Foot Area of both experimental group and control group, meanwhile the 20 m sprinting test of experimental group and control group showed significant differences (p < 0.05 ). However, the mean and standard deviation of all measurement results in the experimental group have greater improvement . In conclusion, 6 weeks short foot exercise for basketball players is an effective improvement and assist the performance of basketball players but there are lot of factors need to be considered , avoided and standardized in order to obtain accurate and precise data