FMS - Functional Movement Screening

Gary Cook and Lee Burton created the FMS as a tool to improve objectivity and collaboration between the professions of physical therapy, strength and conditioning and athletic training.

Goals of the FMS

• Identify an individual’s FUNCTIONAL movement patterns

• Implement corrective exercises (into an existing program, or by creating a new one)

• Improve an individual’s movement patterns

The idea of the FMS is to look at movement patterns and identify where you are deficient in these particular movements and correct these deficiencies.

“An ounce of prehab is worth more than a pound of rehab.”

D. Wathen American Journal of Sports Medicine

What Have We Determined Over the Years?

• Efficient fundamental movements transcend across population groups

• Poor movement can be a risk factor for injury and decreased performance

• Exercise should be based on Movement Weaknesses

Mobility and Stability: A Balance

Mobility = Ability of neuromuscular system to allow for efficient movement of a joint or series of joints through a full, non-restricted pain free range of motion

Stability = muscular control exerted on a joint to redirect force and control movement in the presence of normal muscular flexibility and joint mobility

At TRC we have now…

1. Address Individual Weaknesses

2. Active ROM

3. Movement Prep

4. General Dynamic

5. Position Specific

6. Start Practice