Comparing Acute Effect of Foam Rolling Combined with Static or Dynamic Stretching on Esports Shooting Accuracy and Muscle Stiffness

Ooi, Cindy Sin Yi (2023) Comparing Acute Effect of Foam Rolling Combined with Static or Dynamic Stretching on Esports Shooting Accuracy and Muscle Stiffness. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology.

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Abstract

The popularity of Esports has raised the public's concerns, as prolonged hours of seated position and high concentration on the video screen or computer monitor may result in sustained musculoskeletal disorder, where tightness or pain may occur. Thus, the purpose of the study was to investigate the combined effects of Foam Rolling (FR) and Static Stretching (SS) or Dynamic Stretching (DS) on Esports shooting accuracy & muscle stiffness. A total of 16 Esports players with age of 20.06, with 3.5 year of experience in Esports were participated in this study. A total of 5 visit were done by every participant, with 1 familiarisation session and 4 experimental sessions. A pre-test on Esports shooting accuracy and muscle stiffness was conducted followed by a muscle tightness induced protocols, treatment (FR, FR+SS or FR+DS) and post-test. Results indicates that muscle stiffness shown significant differences during post test when compared between FR+SS and control group, and FR+DS and control group. Whereas, FR alone showed significant improvement when comparing pre and post-test. In Esports shooting accuracy, FR+SS and FR+DS showed significant improvement in fixed target shooting accuracy, whereas FR alone showed significant improvement in moving target shooting accuracy. Meanwhile, control group did not show significant results in both muscle stiffness and Esports shooting accuracy. Hence, it can be concluded that Esports players and coaches should considered using different protocol according to the characteristic of the Esports event.