Association of Functional Movement Screen and Y-Balance Test Scores With Injury in High School Athletes.

Lisman, P, Hildebrand, E, Nadelen, M, and Leppert, K. Association of functional movement screen and Y-Balance Test scores with injury in high school athletes. J Strength Cond Res 35(7): 1930-1938, 2021-The purpose of this study was to determine the association between functional movement screen (FMS) and Y-Balance Test (YBT) performance and lower extremity injury in a sample of male high school athletes.

Functional movement screen and Y-Balance test scores across levels of American football players.

Few studies have investigated differences in functional movement assessment performance across scholastic levels of competition. This study examined Functional Movement Screen (FMS) performance in middle school (MS), high school (HS) and collegiate (COL) American football players and Y-Balance test (YBT) scores in MS and HS players. Functional movement measurements were collected for MS (N = 29; age = 12.