Effects of the Modified 11+ Warm up Program on Lower Extremity Injuries Prevention Among Young Male Footballers

Recently, FIFA has developed warm up program for injury prevention in football but previous studies indicate that performing these programs could not reduce the ankle injuries. Therefore, the present study intends to investigate the Effects of the modified 11 warm-up program on lower extremity injury prevention among the male footballers. One hundred and eleven young male footballers were selected from Tehran league and were divided in two groups: modified 11 and The Control Group. In general, the results showed significant fewer injuries in intervention group compare with players in control group. Despite 55.88% decrease in incidence of ankle injuries in intervention group, the difference was not significant. According to our results, more research is suggested in order to add wobble board training to warm up programs.