THE ACUTE EFFECTS OF DYNAMIC WARM UP ON STATIC BALANCE AND PROPRIOCEPTIVE SENSE IN YOUNG SOCCER PLAYERS

This research was aimed to determine the acute effects of dynamic warm up on static balance and proprioceptive sense in young soccer players. 41 young licenced soccer player training regularly and did not have any surgical operations in the last one year (with an average age of 16.46 ± 0.66 for the experimental group, and 16,50 ± 0,70 for the control group) participated in this research. 41 soccer players were randomly divided into two groups as the experimental group (n:23) and the control group (n:18). The Pro-Kin, Technobody equipment was used for the participants’ balance and proprioceptive sense measurements. After performing the initial measurements, the experimental group participated in the warm-up exercise. Meanwhile, the control group rested. The study finished after the post-tests were implemented. The data obtained from this study were analysed on the SPSS 22 package programme at the p 0.01 and p 0.05 significance levels by using the “Descriptive” and the “Wilcoxon signed rank test”. The result obtained from study before and after dynamic warm ups showed that, the flexibility values were found statistically significant in the experimental group (p 0.01) in contrast to the control group’s flexibility values (p 0.05). In terms of static balance values, the experimental group and the control groups’ centre of pressure in the x-axis, centre of pressure in the y-axis, average forward-backward speed, average medium-lateral speed, perimeter values were not found significantly different (p 0.05). In addition, for the experimental group, it was found that pre and post dynamic warm ups’ medium lateral standard deviation and ellipse area values were significantly different (p 0.05). Control groups’ medium lateral standard deviation and ellipse area values were not found significantly different (p 0.05). The pre and post dynamic warm ups’ forward-backward standard deviation values were found to be significant in both experimental and control groups (p 0.01) (p 0.05). The results of the proprioceptive senses assessment indicated that the experimental and the control groups’ stabile index, average force variance, average track error were not statistically significant (p 0.05). As a result, dynamic warm up has a higher positive effect on flexibility than static balance, and has no effect on proprioceptive senses.