Comparação entre exercício oscilatório e exercícios resistidos no trabalho sensório-motor de atletas de basquetebol.

Abstract

Background: Basketball is a team sport in which there is constant contact between athletes, causing a wide variety of overuse injuries as well as muscle weakness. The oscillatory therapy can increase the strength and muscle power by raising neuromuscular activation, causing effects similar to those of the short-term endurance exercise. The resistance exercise promotes an increase of tolerance to submaximal aerobic exercise and improvement of cardiovascular responses to stress. Objective: Evaluating different responses of the sensorimotor rehabilitation work when using the oscillating platform and/or endurance exercises in basketball athletes. Methodology: A quasi-experimental study with 9 subjects - basketball athletes - aged between 15 and 18, and also randomly divided into three groups, A, B and C, undergoing 10 sessions of physiotherapy following a specific protocol. Group A took only oscillating platform exercises, the Group B performed only resistance exercises and Group C take oscillating platform and resistance exercises. The evaluated factors were: the quadriceps strength, through the one-repetition-maximum (1RM) test, and the vertical jump, through the vertical jump (SVM) test, of each athlete before and after the physical therapy protocol. Results: All subjects showed improvements in both vertical jump and quadriceps strength, mainly the subjects of the Group B, attesting that there are differences in responses between different exercises for sensory-motor rehabilitation. Conclusion: Despite the small number of subjects and few sessions of physiotherapy protocol, it was possible to achieve an improvement regarding to the discussed aspects, enabling better performance of athletes during training, and, possibly, preventing future injuries.