Development & Implementation of Movement Screening & Corrective Exercise for Women's Soccor Players

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Poster

Abstract

Injury prevention, clinical evaluation and diagnosis, and treatment and rehabilitation are three of the domains of athletic training. The functional movement screening is a valuable tool, clinicians use to assess dysfunctional movement. The FMS screening tool consists of seven movements and is scored on a scale of zero to three. Due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemics, athletes have had extended periods of inactivity, and thus the human performance department at Prairie View A&M University needed a quick and reliable injury screening tool to assess athletic readiness A baseline screen was conducted when the soccer athletes initially returned to campus during the fall semester. The scores were totaled and analyzed. A small subgroup of athletes were given corrective exercise programs during the winter break. Athletes were re-screened upon arrival in the spring semester. In the spring all athletes were given the corrective exercise programs and given a health-related quality of life survey at the beginning and end of the season. The process continues to be ongoing but commenced 6 months ago and has used a plan, do, study, act methodology. The initial focus of the project was to get the screen completed and to implement corrective exercise programs to rectify dysfunctional movement. Only eighteen percent of the soccer athletes screened scored a composite score of 14 or lower during the initial screen. This figure dropped slightly in the spring to fourteen percent. According to FMS scoring guidelines a score of 14 or lower signifies movement dysfunction and recommends corrective intervention.3 In conclusion, implementation of the functional movement screen has provided objective data in relation to dysfunctional movement patterns for Prairie View women’s soccer athletes. The data provided from this study will allow clinicians to improve the quality of care to the athletes as well as provide physical findings that the athlete can tangibly understand and improve on themselves.

Publication Date

Spring 2021

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Poster presented at ATSU-ASHS DAT Spring - 2021. This is a Kubify based presentation hosted at https://api.ltb.io/show/BAYHH It includes a video presentation, references, a PowerPoint presentation, and summary poster.

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