Are we really 'screening' movement? The role of assessing movement quality in exercise settings
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2020
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Bennett, H.
Arnold, J.
Norton, K.
Davison, K.
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Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2020; 9(6):489-492
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The assessment of movement quality became widespread in exercise settings following the introduction of Gray Cook’s Functional Movement Screen (FMS). Assessing muscle and joint function during real-world movement tasks, it changed the way many coaches assessed their clients. Subsequent research explored potential applications of the tool, most of which focussed on injury prediction. But despite theoretical rationale, evidence suggests that the injury-prediction capabilities of movement-quality assessments like the FMS are limited, at best. Consequently, it is now often suggested by coaches and researchers alike that movement assessment tools offer little merit in practice.3 However, the authors of this opinion piece offer an alternative perspective, where the assessment of movement quality plays an important role in practice, although with a primary focus of guiding safe and effective exercise prescription, rather highlighting injury risk.
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Copyright 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Shanghai University of Sport. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)