ReviewOpen access journal of sports medicine2018
Utility of FMS to understand injury incidence in sports: current perspectives.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Markerless vision-based functional movement screening movements evaluation with deep neural networks.iScience · 2024Article
- Influence of Body Composition on Functional Movement Among Police Officers.International journal of exercise science · 2024Article
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- Pilot Study: The Relationship between Foot Posture and Movement Quality in Non-Professional Male Football Players.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- The Functional Movement Screen: Exploring Interrater Reliability between Raters in the Updated Version.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2023Article
- Well-being as a performance pillar: a holistic approach for monitoring tennis players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Feasibility and reliability of the Functional Movement Screen battery in adults with intellectual disability.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022Article
- Sex-related Anthropometrics in a Lower-Body Mobility Assessment Among Professional Soccer Athletes.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2022Article
- Active straight leg raising (ASLR) competence improves with reverse-ASLR exercises and not repeating ASLR exercises.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Can the Functional Movement Screen Method Identify Previously Injured Wushu Athletes?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- DEEP NECK FLEXORS IMPACT RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE ACTIVITY DURING ACTIVE STRAIGHT LEG RAISING.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2020Article
- Relationship between movement dysfunctions and sports injuries according to gender of youth soccer player.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Earlier onsets in internal oblique and gluteus maximus muscles during leg raising in Functional Movement Screen score 3 than score 1.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2020Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a popular movement screen used by rehabilitation, as well as strength and conditioning, professionals. The FMS, like other movement screens, identifies movement dysfunction in those at risk of, but not currently experiencing, signs or symptoms of a musculoskeletal injury. Seven movement patterns comprise the FMS, which was designed to screen fundamental movement requiring a balance between stability and mobility. The 7 movement patterns are summed to a composite FMS score. For an instrument to have wide applicability and acceptability, there must be high levels of reliability, validity, and accuracy. The FMS is certainly a reliable tool, and can be consistently scored within and between raters. Although the FMS has high face and content validity, the criterion validity (discriminant and convergent) is low. Additionally, the FMS does not appear to be studying a single construct, challenging the use of the summed composite FMS score. The accuracy of the FMS in screening for injury is also suspect, with low sensitivity in almost all studies, although specificity is higher. Finally, within the FMS literature, the concepts of prediction and association are conflated, combined with flawed cohort studies, leading to questions about the efficacy of the FMS to screen for injury. Future research on the use of the FMS, either the composite score or the individual movement patterns, to screen for injury or injury risk in adequately powered, well-designed studies are required to determine if the FMS is appropriate for use as a movement screen.
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