Abstract
Healthy young adults with a history of multiple concussions appear to adopt conservative postural control strategies during instrumented balance assessments. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a practical assessment of balance readily available to sports medicine clinicians. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between FMS performance and prior concussion history (0 to 4 concussions). Fifty-five club sports student-athletes (38 male/17 female; mean height: 1.70 ± 0.17 m; mean weight: 78.5 ± 19.9 kg; mean age: 20.0 ± 1.5 years; 60% reported prior concussion) performed the seven FMS components. A bivariate Pearson correlation was performed to compare the relationship between concussion history and composite and component FMS scores. There were no significant relationships between concussion history and either the composite ( r = 0.131, P = .34) or any of the component ( P > .05) scores. These results suggest that the FMS was not an effective screening tool to identify these deficits if postural control impairments were present.
Original language | American English |
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Journal | Athletic Training and Sports Health Care |
Volume | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2015 |
Disciplines
- Kinesiology
- Medicine and Health Sciences
Keywords
- Balance
- Concssion
- Concussion history
- FMS
- Functional Movement Screen