A specific neuromuscular warm-up focusing on ankle sprain injuries in elite basketball

Abstract

A review of previous research was carried out to discover strategies to prevent ankle injuries in basketball. Studies about neuromuscular and proprioceptive exercises were investigated to ascertain the benefits and limitations. The main goal of this publication is to propose a weekly ankle-specific neuromuscular programme for an elite basketball team, including this ankle proposal during teams’ pre-basketball training warm-up sessions.

Keywords

• adjuvant training
• injury prevention
• neuromuscular training
• optimizer training
• proprioceptive training
• team sports