Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

Vertical jump is essential that many sports are required to jump. Basketball requires few of high intensity activities like jumping for rebounds, jumping for blocks, jumping for turns, shots, sprints, dribbles and so on (Delextrat and Cohen, 2009; Meckell et al., 2009; Metaxas et al., 2009). Comparing the different results from cryotherapy and thermotherapy on muscle contractile properties and vertical jump performance. Thirty-six subjects are 18 - 26 of age will volunteer who are understanding and speaking in Cantonese for this study. The study will require three visits and lasting 30-45 minutes per visit. there were three intervention groups which are control group, cryotherapy group and thermotherapy group. The subjects were required to have a warm up section around 5 minutes before starting the test. After the intervention experiment, the data collection of TMG test and drop vertical jump will be started. There were no any significant different between cryotherapy group, thermotherapy group and control group. It is not suggested that improving the sports performance in the short period by using hot pack or cold pack because hot pack and cold pack are not comprehensive to improve the muscle.