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What is the Functional Movement Screen targeting? - ✅✅Weak links in a person's movement patterns

What is a weak link? - ✅✅a physical or functional limitation The _______ is a simple diagram constructed to give a mental image and understanding of human movement and movement patterns. - ✅✅Performance Pyramid

The optimum performance pyramid

2. The over-powered performance pyramid
3. The under-powered performance pyramid
4. The under-skilled performance pyramid On the performance pyramid, the _________ demonstrates the fact that the individual's

functional movements are more than adequate to handle the amount of power that they can generate. - ✅✅Buffer Zone The _______ pyramid represents the individual who scores very poorly on mobility and stability tests, but very highly on power production and adequately in skill. - ✅✅Over-powered

stand improvement. - ✅✅under-powered The ________ pyramid represents an individual who either naturally or through work has appropriate functional movement patterns and good power production, but has not had effective mastery of sports skill. - ✅✅Under-skilled

________ is the combination of muscle flexibility, joint range or motion, and a body segment's freedom of movement - ✅✅Mobility __________ is the ability to maintain posture and/or control motion - ✅✅Stability

The Functional Movement Screen is studying ________________ in an effort to determine the weak link in a person's movements.

• ✅✅fundamental movement patterns When performing each test the individual is given _______ attempts to perform the movement as described - ✅✅three

When in doubt score ___ - ✅✅low List the FMS tests. (try and list them in order and include any clearance tests) - ✅✅1. Deep Squat

2. Hurdle Step
3. In-Line Lunge

and ankles. Challenges total body mechanics The ______ is the only screen that does not asses the left and right sides of the body independently. - ✅✅Deep Squat If the criteria for a score of III is not achieved during the deep squat, the athlete if then

asked to perform the test with a ______ under their heels - ✅✅2x6 board Purpose of the hurdle step? - ✅✅Designed to challenge the body's proper stride mechanics during a stepping motion. Assesses bilateral functional mobility and stability of the hips, knees, and ankles.

For the in-line lunge the tester must measure _____________ and apply it from the end of the toes of the foot on the board, making a mark. - ✅✅from the floor to the tibial tuberosity or use the height of the hurdle step. When performing the inline lunge, the _______ leg is the one being scored - ✅✅front

During shoulder mobility, the tester determines hand length by measuring ________ - ✅✅distance from the distal wrist crease to the tip of the third digit. During shoulder mobility the tester measures the distance between _________ to determine score, then comparing it to starting

between the ________ and places the dowel an this position - ✅✅anterior superior illiac spine (ASIS) and mid- point of the patella ALS, the _____ must pass the dowel - ✅✅malleolus The muscle(s) in focus during the ASL are - ✅✅hamstrings

Trunk Stability Push-up, the body should be lifted as a _______ - ✅✅unit Women begin the push up with thumbs in line at the ______, if they cannot perform a push-up here the hands are lowered to the ___________ - ✅✅chin, clavicle