Functional Movement Screen (FMS)

Descripción

Don’t Add Fitness to Dysfunction

Many fitness plateaus and chronic, nagging pains don’t stem from a lack of strength or cardiovascular fitness — they stem from fundamental movement dysfunction. If your nervous system cannot coordinate a basic squat, step, or lunge without compensation, stacking heavy gym weights or high-volume endurance training on top of that pattern simply accelerates wear and tear on your joints.

The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is the gold-standard diagnostic system used by elite sporting organizations, military units, and clinical performance centres worldwide to evaluate your movement baseline. By stripping away raw athletic power and focusing purely on the relationship between joint mobility and motor control, the FMS uncovers exactly where your physical foundation is cracked.

The 7 Pillars of Functional Movement Architecture

During your screen, we analyze your body through seven specific, unweighted movement patterns that require a precise balance of mobility and stability:

Deep Squat: Assesses symmetrical bilateral mobility of the hips, knees, and ankles, alongside thoracic spine extension.

Hurdle Step: Challenges single-leg stance stability, pelvic control, and step-initiation mobility.

Inline Lunge: Evaluates your body’s ability to handle deceleration, lateral stress, and rotational stability in a narrow stance.

Shoulder Mobility: Maps scapular retraction, glenohumeral rotation, and upper-body posture alignment.

Active Straight-Leg Raise: Tests posterior core stability while isolating independent hip flexion and hamstring flexibility.

Trunk Stability Push-Up: Measures your reflexive core stabilization to protect the spine from sagging or rotating under sagittal load.

Rotary Stability: A complex multi-planar check evaluating neuromuscular coordination and core stability during energy transfers between the upper and lower body.

Objective Tracking & The Corrective Strategy

We don’t just eyeball your screen. We combine the classic FMS grading criteria with high-speed video capture and hand-held dynamometry if a specific muscle group flags a structural capacity deficit.

Your final report clearly flags your primary movement restrictions and ranks them by priority. We don’t just tell you what’s wrong; we build your Bespoke Corrective Exercise Strategy to dismantle those restrictions:

The Mobility Triggers: Targeted self-myofascial release and joint mobilization protocols to unlock restricted movement windows (e.g., tight ankle joints or stiff thoracic spines).

The Motor Control Loops: Neuromuscular patterning drills to teach your brain how to keep your joints stable once those new movement windows are opened.

The Progress Track: A clear path outlining how and when to progress these drills into your main gym or sport-specific training routines.

What’s Included in Your Assessment

The Full FMS 7-Pattern Screening: A comprehensive, hands-on physical movement evaluation scored under the strict oversight of an applied biomechanics specialist.

Digital Movement Analysis & Asymmetry Report: A personalized analytical profile detailing your exact score breakdown, pinpointing left/right restrictions, and highlighting your primary compensation patterns.

Customized Corrective Exercise Plan: A step-by-step, highly actionable video-supported library of mobility drills and stabilization exercises tailored to fix your lowest-scoring movement patterns.

Important Session Preparation Rules

Attire: Please wear comfortable gym clothing (shorts and a t-shirt or tank top). Avoid loose, baggy pants or oversized sweaters, as the specialist needs to clearly see the alignment of your ankles, knees, hips, and spine during testing.

Footwear: Bring standard training shoes, but be prepared to perform several testing patterns barefoot, as tracking foot and ankle interaction with the floor is critical to the FMS protocol.

Physical State: This test is an audit of your baseline function. It should not be conducted if you are suffering from an acute, severe injury or are in significant pain.