Programa propioceptivo a futbolistas pre-juveniles de un club deportivo, ciudad de Manizales

The target of this study was to analyze the effect of a proprioception program on the balance in a group of young soccer players. A program of 8 exercises was proposed, which were extracted from the warm-up program developed by Bizzini, Junge, & Dvorak (2007) “11 + a finished warm-up program to prepare for injuries in the soccer”, which were adapted and applied for 4 weeks, 4 times a week in meetings that lasted between 15 and 20 minutes. It was applied to a group of 17 athletics whose ages range between 14 and 15 years old, belonging to the Eleven Caldas S.A school of soccer club, to which a previous evaluation was applied with the Romberg test and the Romberg sensitive test. The athletics were reevaluated after having finished the four week program obtaining results, that were positive and demonstrated the proprioception program improved their balance, with an increase of 18% in the Romberg test and 29% in the Romberg sensitive test. As conclusions, one emphasizes the efficacy of proprioception program to improve balance.