What is Functional Movement?

The functional movement screening (FMS) is a pre-participation screening tool designed to identify compensatory movement patterns that are indicative of increased injury risk and inefficient movement that causes reduced performance.

Movement screenings

The FMS helps identify muscle asymmetries, tightness, weakness and other risk factors for injury by examining the mobility and stability of the hips, core, shoulders, knees, spine and ankles.

The FMS consists of 7 movements:

• Deep Squat
• Hurdle Step
• Inline Lunge
• Shoulder mobility
• Rotary stability
• Trunk stability Push ups
• Straight leg raise

• Each movement is scored from 0-3
• This provides clear information on the client's functional limitations and thus risk of injury
• Forms the direction and pathway for corrective exercise programming or functional re-training.

Its role is to pinpoint areas of movement pattern limitation and asymmetry.

• Supine/prone
• Quadruped
• Kneeling
• Standing

Our therapists also use Joint by joint theory to try and fix the pain and dysfunction.
They can also do gait analysis and assess how patients are walking, moving and running to improve movement and weight distribution.

We can use kinesiology tape for injuries and also posture issues and also ridged tape for stability and support.