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## [Must Reads For The Basketball Strength Coach](https://www.bsmpg.com/articles---resources-0/bid/87839/Must-Reads-For-The-Basketball-Strength-Coach)

Posted by [Boston Sports Medicine and Performance Group](https://www.bsmpg.com/articles-resources-0/author/boston-sports-medicine-and-performance-group) on Jun 17, 2012 7:53:00 PM

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### **[Injury Prevention for the Basketball Athlete - Warm-Up](http://sportsmedresearch.blogspot.com/2012/06/fifa11-program-is-effective-in.html)**

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Basketball is a popular and competitive team sport across the world with injuries commonly occurring.  Across all sports, there has been a recent focus on warm-up programs designed to prevent injuries.  The purpose of this randomized cluster trial was to assess the effectiveness of a warm-up program involving running exercises, strengthing, balance, jumping and hamstring exercises, as well as speed training with sport specific changes in direction in elite male basketball players.  This warm-up program was previously proven to be successful in reducing the prevalence of injuries in a soccer population and the specific exercises can be found [here](http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/footballdevelopment/medical/playershealth/the11/).  Eleven elite men’s basketball teams (121 players) were randomized as a team to either the intervention (7 teams) or control group (4 teams).  The coaches and captains of the teams allocated to the intervention group were trained on how to perform a specific set of exercises that they would show their respective teams.  The control teams were instructed to warm-up as they normally would, and there was no standardization or instruction given to any of the control teams.  Injuries, body part, activity, and exposure hours were reported.  Throughout the course of the season, the intervention group had significantly lower overall injury rates (0.95 vs. 2.16), lower extremity injuries (0.68 vs. 1.4), training injuries (0.14 vs. 0.76), acute injuries (0.61 vs. 1.91) and severe (fracture) injuries (0 vs. 0.25) than the control group.

 

[Continue to read this article by clicking **HERE.**](http://sportsmedresearch.blogspot.com/2012/06/fifa11-program-is-effective-in.html)

 

 

### **[Sleep Impacts Value In Professional Sports](http://peakcontrol.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/sleep-impacts-player-value-in-professional-sports/)**

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Data from new research looking at the impact of daytime “sleepiness” on the careers of professional athletes was recently presented at the SLEEP 2012 conference.  These data demonstrate the impact of increased daytime “sleepiness” on a players career.  Essentially this research found that athletes who experienced higher levels of daytime “sleepiness” were less likely to remain with their team after they were drafted.  Those athletes who had low levels of daytime “sleepiness” were more likely to remain with their team in the following years after they were drafted.

These findings have two important implications.  First, it may be important to consider an athlete’s sleep habits as part of the player evaluation process when considering to draft an athlete.  These findings suggest that athletes with high daytime “sleepiness” levels are more likely to not remain with that team in the coming years after being drafted, as such they are a low value.  Conversely, athletes with better sleep habits and low daytime “sleepiness” levels are a higher value pick as they are more likely to remain with their team that drafted them.  Second, the ability to quantify the level of “sleepiness” can be easily quantified using standard survey instruments.  Thus, this is an easy assessment to incorporate into player evaluations and recovery programs to ensure they are maximizing their athletic and regeneration potential.

 

[Continue to read this article by clicking ](http://peakcontrol.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/sleep-impacts-player-value-in-professional-sports/)**[HERE](http://peakcontrol.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/sleep-impacts-player-value-in-professional-sports/).**

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