Functional Movement Screen (FMS) — 7-pattern movement-quality audit — telehealth / national.

Most people start or resume a training program without ever finding out which specific movement pattern (squatting, lunging, stepping over an obstacle, shoulder mobility, core stability) is the one actually holding them back — or that one side moves differently from the other. The FMS turns that guesswork into seven scored patterns a coach can act on, without repeating this library's existing fall-risk balance screens: this standard is about movement QUALITY across a broader set of patterns, not balance or fall risk specifically, and it is deliberately never framed as predicting injury — the evidence for that use is weak and this standard says so.

Where

Telehealth / national (video-scored by a trained observer/coach) · Open the map

Pay

$200 proposed

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Proof

Pre-test pain/red-flag screen (cleared, or routed and the pattern not tested) + all 7 patterns scored 0-3 with the pattern-by-pattern composite (0-21) + any left/right asymmetry flagged + a coaching plan targeted at the lowest-scoring pattern(s), framed explicitly as movement-quality coaching, never an injury-risk prediction

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2027-02-28

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• flat, non-slip open floor space (~10 ft clear in each direction)
• a dowel rod or broomstick (for the in-line lunge and shoulder-mobility patterns)
• a hurdle step or an adjustable cord/elastic at shin height (for the hurdle step)
• a 2x6 board or a taped line for the in-line lunge footprint
• a stopwatch/camera for video scoring
• a tape measure (for scaling the hurdle step and lunge board to the person's height)

Steps

1. 1. Pre-test screen: ask about current injury, recent surgery, uncontrolled joint instability, or acute back/neck pain per pattern; route any positive flag to a clinician or physical therapist and skip that pattern (never test through it).
2. 2. Deep squat: feet shoulder-width, dowel overhead, squat as low as possible keeping the dowel over the feet and heels down; score 0-3, video from front and side.
3. 3. Hurdle step (each leg): step over a shin-height hurdle scaled to the person, keeping the stance leg stable and torso upright; score 0-3 per side, video from front.
4. 4. In-line lunge (each leg): heel-to-toe stance on a board scaled to tibial length, dowel held vertically along the spine, lower the back knee toward the board; score 0-3 per side, video from the side.
5. 5. Shoulder mobility (each side): reach one hand behind the neck and down the back, the other behind the back and up, measure the fist-to-fist gap scaled to hand length; score 0-3 per side, then clear with the shoulder-impingement clearing test (pain here overrides the score to 0).
6. 6. Active straight-leg raise (each side): lying supine, raise one straight leg as high as possible while the other stays flat on the floor; score 0-3 per side against the tibial-midpoint reference.
7. 7. Trunk stability push-up: from a push-up position scaled by sex (hands at forehead level for men, chin level for women), lift the whole body as one unit in a single motion; score 0-3, then clear with the spinal-extension clearing test.
8. 8. Rotary stability (each side): from quadruped, extend the same-side arm and leg together, then flex knee-to-elbow underneath the body while keeping balance and a flat spine; score 0-3 per side (a diagonal opposite-limb pattern is allowed as a partial credit per the published protocol), then clear with the spinal-flexion clearing test.
9. 9. Record all 7 pattern scores (paired patterns recorded per side), sum the composite (lowest score of each paired side counts toward the 0-21 total per the published protocol), flag any left/right asymmetry, and note any pattern that scored 0 for pain and was routed out.

What counts as done

• Pre-test pain/red-flag screen completed per pattern before testing; a positive flag on any pattern routes that pattern to a clinician or physical therapist and the pattern is not scored
• All 7 patterns attempted and scored 0-3 (deep squat, hurdle step, in-line lunge, shoulder mobility, active straight-leg raise, trunk stability push-up, rotary stability), with the paired left/right patterns scored on both sides
• Composite score (0-21) recorded, plus any left/right asymmetry (>=1-point difference on a paired pattern) flagged as its own coaching target
• A movement-quality coaching plan recorded, targeted at the lowest-scoring pattern(s) and any flagged asymmetry -- explicitly NOT framed as an injury-risk score or a fitness-for-duty clearance

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.