Injury Prevention = Performance: The Functional Movement Screen

What does injury prevention have to do with sports performance? EVERYTHING! 

Watch this video. 

Here are the take away key points:

1. Start with the Functional Movement Screen. ALL athletes should be screen first. The strength and conditioning program they perform is built around the results of the FMS.
2. Build a mobile and stable athlete first.
3. “Everybody is getting corrective work every day.”
4. If one athlete has specific issues, that athlete must work on those issues.
5. “Kids are bigger, faster, stronger, but they move worse.” They all need to work on basic movement patterns like stopping, starting, and changing direction.
6.  The athletes who score poorly on the FMS are the athletes you see in the training room all the time.
7. If you want your son or daughter on the court and field, injury prevention is key.
8.  “Mobility, stability, and movement should supersede their [athletes] strength development in the weight room.”
9. “The more mobile and more stable they are, the stronger they are going to end up being….”
10. When a first string athlete gets injured, that effects the entire team. If a top receiver goes down, then a less experienced athlete must move up and may not be ready for the increased workload.
11. The FMS is used at the NFL combine.
12. Focus on quality over quantity.

Functional Movement Screen

Protect your child and yourselves!

Read about the Functional Movement Screen and why EVERY ATHLETE must have this done - click here.

Montgomery County's injury-prevention guru

Silver Spring-based doctor leads way in preventative care for athletes

A simple jump, said Dr. Steven Horwitz, is one of the most dangerous moves in sports.
On the website for his Silver Spring-based office for preventative care, Capital Sports Injury Center, Horwitz shows a 71-second YouTube video of evidence. He first shows a teenage girl wearing a Bethesda Soccer Club shirt, buckling her knees on a short leap. He then presents a stat: Girls are four-to-six times as likely as boys to injure their anterior cruciate ligaments.
He has the remedy and many others, and the testimonials to prove it. Now, he wants to make them more mainstream.


"You just look at these jumps and you can tell who is at risk for serious injury; it's just a matter of time," said Horwitz, a certified chiropractic sports physician, strength and conditioning specialist. "So many serious injuries can be avoided if the kids were just taught simple things at a young age."

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