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#28 Stuart Elwell - Functional Movement Screen

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In this all english episode #028:
 
We meet Stuart Elwell,  physiotherapist from UK with background in West Bromwich football team. Stuart travels across Europe and educates coaches and therapist in  Functional Movement Screen (FMS) and Functional Movement Systems.   Stuart advocates that a systems approach means that you are not missing anything. He guides us through the whole screening process, and gives us an insight about the 7 movements of the FMS. How to score, what is a good score? And what the score means.  We discuss  use FMS in a practical setting,  we  discuss heart rate variability, the most common mistakes that people do during the screen. And the common risk factors according to research. Are you a coach, physiotherapist? Must listen to! Enjoy

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Stuart Elwell is a physiotherapist in UK. He trained at 2002 at coventry university.
 

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Stuarts background where amongst he got to work with the first team squat of West Bromwich.

  • Hydrotherapy: Rehabilitation in water.
  • On a day to day basis Stuart work in a clinic.
  • Stuart guides us through an athlete coming to him and shares his process:

Example athlete: ACL injury

He returned to training, and was discharge from care without any follow up (which is normal today). In June he did pre season conditioning. and felt his knee was not right. He felt something was wrong in knee joint. The athlete had conflicting reports from both his physio and surgoen-  who should you listen to? Stuart was the second opionon. Stuart asked: Are you in pain right now?  Athlete: "No. I just dont feel 100%"

Systems based approach means that you are not missin anything!

The FMS - did not look great. His ankle, hip and low back was not moving well. For a lateral lunge.

Functional Movement Screen

FMS is a screen. It does not diagnoze, it categorises. Stuart mentions that FMS is similar to measurement of blood pressure: "we got standards for that". If we find movement that is risky its the first step for further analysis.

FMS try to capture fundamental movements.

As a baby, the first movement we used are lounges and diaphragm: We look at breathing. We  look at our ability to control our neck. Integrate spine. We gain Locomotion: Crawl, supine to prone, roll, transitional m