Bafirman, Schillaci Valley Mucci, Fiky Zarya
Background. Football players mainly experience the risk of ankle injuries. If not handled properly, it will impact and affect the performance of athletes in matches, so reasonable preventive and rehabilitative efforts when they are in better post-injury conditions are needed. Objectives. The study aimed to determine the effect of massage manipulation with flexibility exercises on the handling of ankle sprain injuries of football athletes aged 15-30 years at Massage Gaselva. Methods. The research method used in this study is a quasi-experimental with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The population in this study consisted of Gaselva massage therapy laboratory patients and athletes who had sports injuries. Samples were taken using incidental sampling techniques so that the sample amounted to 15 people. Instrument to measure Range of Motion (ROM) in joints, namely visual analog scale. Before the data is analyzed, an analysis requirements test is carried out, namely the normality and homogeneity tests. Data analysis was performed with a t-test for pairwise data comparison, with a significance level of 5%. Results. It is shown that there was a significant effect between massage manipulation and flexibility training (with values to (19.00) > tt (1.761)) on the management of ankle sprain injuries of soccer athletes aged 15-30 years at Massage Gaselva. Conclusions. This is known because ankle injuries experienced by soccer athletes must be handled properly, quickly, and precisely. © 2025, Society of Aging and Physical Activity (SAPA). All rights reserved.
Faculty of Sports Science, Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia
