As a basketball athlete, keep in mind that your coach most likely has no background in how to prevent injuries, thus will put the athlete in vulnerable situations! The coach will only talk about getting to regionals, or state, or nationals, but not about creating healthy, thus educated athletes. Players can create there own plays, no coach is necessary. 

The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) can help prevent basketball injuries by identifying imbalances and asymmetries in movement that can lead to weakness: 

• How it works

  The FMS is a low-cost, easy-to-use tool that assesses an athlete's movement quality to predict and prevent injuries. It can help identify areas of weakness that may lead to injury. 

   

• Research

  Some research suggests that the FMS can help prevent injuries in basketball players: 

   

  • One study found that the FMS had high specificity for predicting injury in collegiate basketball players. 

     

  • Another study found that implementing strength and conditioning programming led to significant increases in FMS scores for secondary school basketball players. 

   

  Research Studies 

  https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=jsmahs

   

  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6816300/#:~:text=The%20Functional%20Movement%20Screen%20(FMS,the%20screen%20in%20youth%20sport.