Functional Movement Screen^TM – Normative Values in Healthy Distance Runners

Abstract

Recreational runners have an estimated overuse injury incidence rate of up to 79% and 90% for marathoners. A pre-participation screening tool that can identify risk for injury may help reduce overuse injury in runners. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS^TM) is a reliable clinical tool used with athletes to help predict injury. To date, the FMS^TM has not been used with endurance athletes. The purpose of this article is to establish normative FMS^TM values for distance runners. 45 healthy runners performed the FMS^TM. Descriptive statistics were calculated; independent t-tests were performed to examine the effect of gender, experience and injury on scores. A Chi-square test was used to evaluate whether significant differences in scores exist for any component of the FMS^TM. The mean FMS^TM score was 13.13±1.8. No significant differences in FMS^TM scores were found between novice and experienced runners (p=0.71) or runners with a history of injury and those without (p=0.20). While male and female runners did not differ significantly in their total FMS^TM score (p=0.65), significant differences were found in the deep squat (p<0.05), trunk stability push-up (p<0.001) and active straight leg raise components (p=0.002). This study provides normative values for FMS^TM scores when testing uninjured distance runners.

Key words

functional movement - distance runners - injury

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