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Assessment Of Functional Movement Screening™ By Assessors Of Three Different Skill Levels, Mackenzie Cole, Marissa Mccollister, Neil Greier, Siobhan Fagan, Andrew W. Froehle, Nicholas Curry, Jason Bradford, Brad Muse, Scott Bruce

Kinesiology and Health Faculty Publications

• The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a series of 7 physical tests

• FMS screens fundamental movement patterns that require mobility, stability, and motor control

• FMS is comprised of deep squat (DS), hurdle step (HS), in-line lunge (IL), shoulder mobility (ShM), active straight leg raise (ASLR), trunk stability push-up (TSP), and rotary stability (RS) (Figures 1-4)

• Sports medicine clinicians use FMS to assess for dysfunctional movement patterns

• FMS is not intended to be a diagnostic tool

• The inter-rater reliability for FMS has values ranging from 0.37 to .95

• The intra-rater reliability for FMS has …