Investigate of the effect of basketball on the sole of professional basketball players

The aim of the present study is to compare the pedobarographic parameters of peak pressure, average maximal pressure and time-pressure integral for 11 contact areas of foot-soles in professional basketball players and healthy people and to investigate the effect of basketball on the foot-sole. The study comprised of 25 professional basketball players with no foot-related complaints and the control group comprised of 25 volunteered males. EMED-SF (Novel GmbH, Munich, Germany) plantar pressure analysis system was used in the study. Any statistically significant difference between the averages of the study and the control groups was examined using non-parametrical Mann Whitney U test, and the extent of the linear relationship between the physical structure and the variables of the foot-sole was examined by calculating the Pearson (r) coefficient. A 95% reliability interval was used and the level of significance was accepted to be p < 0.01-0.05 in measurements. It was observed that the results were significant to a level of (0.01-0.05) between metatarsal heads 1.3.4 and the pollex in total results and those of the control group were high. Based on these results, it was concluded that there was a relationship between the sports performed by the basketball players and variables of the foot-sole and that the sports did not harm the foot-sole.