Over the past 25 years, there has been a trend away from traditional, isolated assessment and strengthening approaches, toward a more integrated, functional model. (Cook et al., 2006) As a result the use of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) has become widespread in manual therapy practice, commonly as a means of assessing the movement patterns of athletes in general (Parchmann and McBride, 2011) as well as sport-specific assessment, for example (American) football (Kiesel et al., 2007). Outside of sporting settings FMS has been used in populations ranging from military personnel (Lisman et al., 2013) to middle-aged adults (Perry and Koehle, 2013) and, with adjusted protocols, to the elderly - i.e. the 'Timed Movement battery' (Creel et al., 2001, Deydre et al., 2012).
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