Functional Movement Screen

Who it's for

A Functional Movement Screen may be beneficial for:

• Athletes of all levels
• Recreational exercisers
• Individuals returning to sport after injury
• People with recurrent musculoskeletal injuries
• Active adults looking to improve movement quality
• Individuals beginning a new fitness program
• Anyone wanting to optimize performance and reduce injury risk

What does it include?

Your physiotherapist will assess a series of fundamental movement patterns, including:

• Squatting
• Lunging
• Stepping and balance
• Shoulder mobility
• Trunk stability
• Hip mobility
• Core control
• Single-leg stability
• Functional strength and movement coordination

The assessment may also include flexibility, joint mobility, muscle strength and balance testing based on your individual goals.

How can it help?

The assessment provides valuable information to guide your rehabilitation or training program by helping to:

• Identify movement limitations and asymmetries
• Detect mobility and stability deficits
• Improve movement efficiency
• Enhance balance and coordination
• Optimize athletic performance
• Support injury-prevention strategies
• Track progress throughout rehabilitation
• Develop a personalized exercise program based on your movement needs

Rather than diagnosing an injury, the Functional Movement Screen helps identify movement patterns that may benefit from targeted exercise and corrective strategies.

What to expect

Your physiotherapist will guide you through a series of simple movement tasks while observing your movement quality, and some movements may be recorded for further analysis. Following the assessment you'll receive individualized recommendations that may include corrective exercises, strength and conditioning, mobility and flexibility work, balance and stability training, sport-specific movement training, injury-prevention strategies, and return-to-sport or activity recommendations.