Tag: youth sports

What's Your Functional Movement Screening Score?

What’s Your Functional Movement Screening Score?

What is the Functional Movement Screen? The Functional Movement Screen is a screening tool to help you move better. Comprising seven movement patterns placing the individual in extreme positions where movement deficits become apparent to the trained therapist. The FMS screen does not diagnose orthopedic problems; it demonstrates areas of the body that, with improved […]

Injury Prevention, Sports Medicine

Overused Athletes

13 year old baseball phenom featured in Sports Illustrated; College basketball scholarship offered to 10 year old; 14 year old signs professional soccer contract; While one would think these are stories of fiction, they are actual headlines, and stories of children who are being pushed further into sport specialization at earlier and earlier ages. Specialization […]

Sports Medicine