SynthesisIndustrial health2019
The effectiveness of the functional movement screen in determining injury risk in tactical occupations.
Synthesis in Industrial health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Risk factors for adverse health in military and law enforcement personnel; an umbrella review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of Functional Training on Physical Fitness Among Athletes: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
- Emergency medical technicians with impaired functional movement patterns have poorer dynamic balance and muscle flexibility: a cross-sectional study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Scoping review of UK female-firefighters, physical fitness and occupational performance.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Protective Gear Negatively Impacts Police Officer Mobility, Stability, and Power Generation.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Prediction of injury risk in Chinese mine rescuers based on single factors and different threshold combinations of FMS and YBT.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Influence of Body Composition on Functional Movement Among Police Officers.International journal of exercise science · 2024Article
- Pilot Study: The Relationship between Foot Posture and Movement Quality in Non-Professional Male Football Players.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Biomechanical and Psychological Predictors of Failure in the Air Force Physical Fitness Test.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Functional Movement Quality of Firefighter Recruits: Longitudinal Changes from the Academy to Active-Duty Status.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2019
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Injures are common in workers engaged in tactical occupations. Research suggests that the functional movement screen (FMS) may provide practitioners the ability to identify tactical athletes most at risk for injury. However, there exists controversy as to the effectiveness of the FMS as a tool for classifying injury risk. The purpose of the meta-analysis was to determine the predictive value of the FMS in determining injury risk in workers engaged in tactical occupations. We searched MEDLINE, Military and Government Collection (EBSCO), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Technical Information Center and PubMed databases for articles published between January 2000 and October 2017 [corrected]. Ten studies met the inclusion criteria. Multiple random-effects model meta-analyses were conducted, with an odds ratio as the effects metric. FMS cut-off score, occupation, injury type and sex were used as moderators for the analyses. The odds of injury were greatest for tactical athletes with FMS scores ≤14. Personnel scoring ≤14 had almost 2 times the odds of injury as compared to those scoring >14. However, the magnitude of the effects were small; thus the relationship between FMS cut scores and injury prediction does not support its use as a sole predictor of injury.
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